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Journey From Palm Sunday to Easter with Rowan Williams

March 30, 2010

This week the Archbishop of Canterbury, Rowan Williams, will give a series of Holy Week Lectures entitled ‘The beginning of the Gospel’ over three consecutive evenings at  Canterbury Cathedral.   The lectures will be available at the official site of the Archbishop here. History & Memory Monday 29 March Unveiling Secrets Tuesday 30 March A Lifelong [...]

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Rowan Williams on the “Uniqueness and Finality” of Christ

March 23, 2010

Archbishop Rowan Williams recently gave a brilliant address at Guildford Cathedral titled The Finality of Christ in a Pluralist World. The Archbishop spoke of defending the uniqueness and finality of Christ, and encountering the truth about God and humanity from a moral, political and philosophical perspective. The address highlighted the importance of approaching inter faith dialogue [...]

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Archbishop Rowan Williams at the Beginning of Lent

February 21, 2010

In this video, also available here, Rowan Williams talks of Lent as providing an opportunity to “sweep and clean the room of our own minds and hearts so that the new life really may have room to come in and take over and transform us at Easter.”  The Archbishop says: “It’s not about feeling gloomy [...]

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Remarks from Rowan Williams Upon Receiving the Campion Award

January 30, 2010

From America Magazine: On January 25 Rowan Williams, Archbishop of Canterbury, accepted the 2009 Campion Award from the editors of America.  In his remarks upon accepting award, he reflected on the idea of a “martyrial ecumenism,” mused on the surprising links between Shakespeare and St. Edmund Campion and emphasized the central place of forgiveness in all [...]

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Archbishop Rowan Williams Welcomes 2010

January 1, 2010

A timely message about hope, human cooperation, and charity.

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Making God Credible

November 12, 2009

In a sermon given at All Saints Margaret Street on November 1, Archbishop Rowan Williams reminded his listeners that God does not make himself credible by argument, but by the lives and deaths of faithful people who engage their human journey with courage and hope. Speaking about our “contemporary anxieties” in the Anglican Communion, Rowan [...]

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Rowan Williams Reflects on Easter

April 7, 2009

The Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr. Rowan Williams, reflects on the celebration of Easter: “At Easter we celebrate just not the fact that Jesus rose from the dead, as if that were an interesting fact that happened many centuries ago.  We celebrate the fact that in words from the Bible, because he is alive, we are [...]

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Archbishop of Canterbury: ‘Churches must not be too busy.’

February 4, 2009

In his sermon at St. Mark’s pro-Cathedral in Alexandria, Egypt, where he is chairing the meeting of the Primates of the Anglican Communion, the Archbishop of Canterbury raised the issue of busyness in congregations today.  Is prayer a substitute for activity, or an activity for which there is no substitute?  From the sermon: Many years [...]

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Concluding Prayers at the Compass Rose

November 20, 2008

The Annual Meeting of the Compass Rose Society ended with a liturgy of intercessory prayers for the work and witness of Canterbury Cathedral, the Archbishop of Canterbury, and for the provinces and churches of the Communion around the world. We gathered with the Archbishop around the Compass Rose—the symbol of the worldwide Anglican Communion. The [...]

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An Evening With Archbishop Rowan Williams – Part III

November 16, 2008

I was fascinated with a question that was asked of Archbishop Rowan after his presentation to the Compass Rose Society about the role of human ego in the competing tensions we face within the Anglican Communion.  After a quiet pause, the Archbishop responded: “The great temptation I suppose for any believer and any minster is [...]

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