3 December 2020 Rowan D. Williams To conclude: good journalism is one of the models of good conversation and communication in the wider social context.
3 December 2020 Rowan D. Williams Friendship is something that creates equality and mutuality, not a reward for finding equality or a way of intensifying existing mutuality.
3 December 2020 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.
3 December 2020 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.
3 December 2020 Rowan D. Williams 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.
3 December 2020 Rowan D. Williams In a spiritually sensitive culture, then, it might well be that age is something to be admired or envied.
3 December 2020 Rowan D. Williams In sharp contrast to the idea that this stage of life is enviable, we hear high levels of anxiety about getting old, anxieties about health, mobility, access to facilities, simple routine care and attention.
3 December 2020 Rowan D. Williams And when the world is created, it is created in such a way that those eternal objects of God’s loving wisdom become actualities – interacting with one another, relating to God in the finite realm.
3 December 2020 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.
3 December 2020 Rowan D. Williams To help the poor to a capacity for action and liberty is something essential for one’s own health as well as theirs: there is a needful gift they have to offer which cannot be offered so long as they are confined by poverty.
