Rowan Williams
Rowan Williams
Rowan Douglas Williams, Baron Williams of Oystermouth PC FBA FRSL FLSWis a Welsh Anglican bishop, theologian and poet...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionReligious Leader
Date of Birth14 June 1950
CitySwansea, England
assisted certainly defenders desire dying euthanasia motive people spare
I am certainly not ascribing to the defenders of euthanasia or assisted dying any motive but the desire to spare people unnecessary suffering,
marriage unique covenant-with-god
Marriage has a unique place because it speaks of an absolute faithfulness, a covenant between radically different persons, male and female; and so it echoes the absolute covenant of God with his chosen, a covenant between radically different partners.
understanding world way
How do we live in a way that shows an understanding that we genuinely live in a shared world, not one that simply belongs to us?
equality way rewards
Friendship is something that creates equality and mutuality, not a reward for finding equality or a way of intensifying existing mutuality.
healthy trying limits
A healthy human environment is one in which we try to make sense of our limits, of the accidents that can always befall us and the passage of time which inexorably changes us.
fiction
A public is a necessary fiction.
moral climate-change
It's a moral question.
government people support
We must support government coercion over enforcing international protocols and speed limits on motorways if we want the global economy not to collapse and millions, billions of people to die.
autumn opportunity rome
My visit this autumn is an opportunity to continue that rich tradition of visits between Canterbury and Rome.
marketing empires degrees
What can we say about a marketing culture that so openly feeds and colludes with obsession? The Disney empire has developed this to an unprecedented degree of professionalism.
church whole-truth whole
It takes the whole church to know the whole truth.
christian second-chance community
St Paul, in his second letter to Corinth, spells this out further in the important eighth and ninth chapters, where he urges some of the Christian communities to be generous to others so that they may also have the chance to be generous in return.
new-year real years
Perhaps a good resolution for the new year would be to keep asking what world we want to pass on to the next generation. Indeed to ask whether we have a real and vivid sense of that next generation.
today wells microcosm
Well, today, the diocese is more than ever a microcosm.