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Rowan D. Williams
The Church is the new creation, it is life and joy, it is the sacramental fellowship in which we share the ultimate purpose of God, made real for us now in our hearing the Word and sharing the Sacrament.
Rowan D. Williams
The Church exists to connect people at the level of their hunger for a new world.
Rowan D. Williams
The answer was that in Burundi, having a clean bill of health has taken on a very particular meaning: unless and until you have paid for your hospital treatment, you simply can't leave, you are in effect a captive.
Rowan D. Williams
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.
Rowan D. Williams
So every creative act strives to attain an absolute status; it longs to create a world of beauty to triumph over chaos and convert it to order.
Rowan D. Williams
Serving democracy and nourishing the common good is, for the media, something that requires not only attacking corrupt secrecies in a society, but also defending non-corrupt communication.
Rowan D. Williams
One of the most powerful defences the media can offer for controversial actions is, of course, public interest.
Rowan D. Williams
Now the more we live and speak - this week and every week - as Church in this sense, the more we shall have to say to the real world.
Rowan D. Williams
Not much is to be gained simply by religious groups and religious leaders repeating slogans about the costs and evils of globalisation.
Rowan D. Williams
More perhaps than any war for centuries, the conflict that ended sixty years ago had for us in Britain the clear character of a moral struggle.