Ordinary people outside hotels raging at ordinary people inside them: that’s the tragedy of this refugee controversy | Rowan Williams Anyone who has met refugees sees the ordinariness of their hopes and dreams. If we reject their humanity, how can we be proud of ourselves, asks former archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams

"People in hotels, hostels, detention centres, are not there as a lifestyle choice – which is why it is not only unjust but absurd to punish them for being there...Collective blame and indiscriminate violence are always the beginning of real moral corruption."

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Pope Leo XIV and Archbishop Rowan Williams YouTube video by Fr James (Barely Protestant)

On 4th June, after his General Audience, Pope Leo XIV was greeted by Rowan Williams.

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No one is safe until everyone is safe – we applied it to the pandemic, but why not our economy? | Rowan Williams A ‘cost of living crisis’ is a sign our society has gone fundamentally wrong. It’s time we stopped reducing people to calculations of cost, says the former archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams

Rowan Williams wrote a typically wise piece a few years ago on "the cost of living", and what happens "When “living” becomes a commodity that some can afford and some can’t".

Well worth a read.
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What if faith isn’t about certainty, but about how we see?
 What if Christianity still has something worth discovering — even after it all unravels?
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America’s broken commonwealth The nation’s founding myth was based on faith and solidarity – but it also contained the roots of today’s democratic crisis.

America’s broken commonwealth.
The nation’s founding myth was based on faith and solidarity – but it also contained the roots of today’s democratic crisis. Rowan Williams in @newstatesman.com

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England was forged by Christianity – but we’re giving it up Bijan Omrani’s superb book, God is an Englishman, argues that we take our national faith for granted – and that the youth suffer as a result

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The extraordinary diversity of early Christian communities

'That does not alter the pervasiveness of anti-Judaism in pretty well all varieties of Christianity in this period.'

Rowan Williams on the extraordinary diversity of early Christian communities

The Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks Annual Memorial Lecture 2025 | Lord Rowan Williams YouTube video by The Rabbi Sacks Legacy

The Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks Annual Memorial Lecture 2025 | Lord Rowan ... youtu.be/LiCllaQa5_U?...

When politicians tell us to focus on growth we need to ask: ‘Why, and for whom?’ Isolate growth from public good and you are simply planning for breakdown. My research shows that a resilient society should be rooted in wellbeing, not wealth, says former archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams

When politicians tell us to focus on growth we need to ask: ‘Why, and for whom?’

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Sermon at Choral Evensong In Memory of Robert Willis 02/02/25 YouTube video by Salisbury Cathedral

Sermon at Choral Evensong In Memory of Robert Willis 02/02/25

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We Who Wrestle With God by Jordan Peterson review – a culture warrior out of his depth The popular psychologist’s blinkered reading of the Bible does his cause no favours

We Who Wrestle With God by Jordan Peterson. A culture warrior out of his depth. Guardian review:

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The meaning of ecstasy Simon Critchley’s On Mysticism shows how the language of religious rapture can help us teach us how to live.

Simon Critchley’s On Mysticism shows how the language of religious rapture can help us teach us how to live. Review, New Statesman: www.newstatesman.com/culture/book...