becoming

In his annual televised New Year Message the Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr Rowan Williams reflects on how a ‘disposable’ attitude to living can affect other areas of life and that ‘God does not do waste’. Filmed in Canterbury Cathedral and at a nearby recycling centre.

Fulcrum Conference Islington

Friday 27 April 2007, St Mary, Islington

"Being Disciples"

Dr Rowan Williams
Archbishop of Canterbury
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Dr Elaine Storkey
Senior Research Fellow, Wycliffe Hall, Oxford, Chair of Fulcrum and President of Tearfund
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The Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr Rowan Williams has set out his thinking on the future of the Anglican Communion in the wake of the deliberations in the United States on the Windsor Report and the Anglican Communion at the 75th General Convention of The Episcopal Church (USA).

‘The Challenge and Hope of Being an Anglican Today, A Reflection for the Bishops, Clergy and Faithful of the Anglican Communion’, has been sent to Primates with a covering letter, published more widely and made available as audio on the internet.

Via timesonline: 

…the New Testament “was written by people who by writing what they did made themselves less powerful, not more. They were walking out into an unmapped territory, away from the safe places of political and religious influence . . . it was written by people who were still trying to find a language that would catch up with a reality bigger than they had expected. Whatever this is, it is not about cover-ups, not about the secret agenda of power.”

Dr Rowan Williams, the Archbishop of Canterbury, author of Arius: Heresy and Tradition.