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Rowan D. Williams
Friendship is something that creates equality and mutuality, not a reward for finding equality or a way of intensifying existing mutuality.
Rowan D. Williams
Economists are coming to acknowledge that measures of national wealth and poverty in terms strictly of average income tell you little that is significant of the health or viability of a society.
Rowan D. Williams
Christians should emphatically be campaigning for justice for the poor - but the Church is not a campaign.
Rowan D. Williams
Christianity and Islam alike have a long tradition of commending almsgiving, the practice of simple instinctive generosity to the poor.
Rowan D. Williams
Christian teaching about sex is not a set of isolated prohibitions; it is an integral part of what the Bible has to say about living in such a way that our lives communicate the character of God.
Rowan D. Williams
Christian belief takes as fundamental the idea that humans are created for communication; they are gifted with language.
Rowan D. Williams
Chaucer wanted to paint a picture of the kind of society he lived in, and he succeeded so brilliantly that his pilgrims still have pubs named after them in the Old Kent Road and a whole interactive family fun centre in Canterbury.
Rowan D. Williams
Burundi is an overpopulated country of rather more than six million people, recovering from twelve years of murderous civil strife.
Rowan D. Williams
Bad human communication leaves us less room to grow.
Rowan D. Williams
As the gospels present it to us, the mission of Jesus of Nazareth is about the way in which the community of God's people - historically, the Jewish people who had first received the law and the covenant - is being re-created in relation to Jesus himself.