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As he leaves his role as Archbishop of Canterbury, I will miss the wise and poetic voice of Rowan Williams.
By an exceedingly slim margin, the Synod of the Church of England yesterday defeated a motion that would have allowed women to be ordained as Bishops in their church where they have been ordaining women as priests since 1994.
Both the out-going Archbishop of Canterbury and his successor pleaded with Synod to pass the motion.
The question came up in our discussion at the “Animate” class last Wednesday evening. What exactly do we mean when we talk about “spiritual” or “spirituality”? It is a good question.
People who are committed to the institutional expression of the religious impulse spend a lot of time sitting around lamenting the rush away from formal religion that is such a marked trend in current western culture. I am beginning to wonder if atheists are experiencing some of the same anxiety. It seems the atheist expression of faith is beginning to lose adherents, or at least be forced to admit that some of the faithful non-believers they claimed as their own were in fact not entirely in the atheist camp.
On March 17 N.T. Wright published an article in The Times of London in which he offered his assessment of Rowan Williams’ tenure as Archbishop of Canterbury and recommended the way forward for Rowan’s successor.
Nicholas D. Okoh, the Primate of the Anglican Church in Nigeria, has responded to the announcement of the resignation of Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams.
The evaluations of Rowan Williams’ tenure as Archbishop of Canterbury are beginning to roll in. Predictably the assessments of his time in office reflect the diversity that characterized the difference of opinion on the contentious issues his church faced while he was on the job.
From June 27-30 I was away in Parksville at a Diocesan Clergy Conference. Our sessions were led by Alan and Eleanor Kreider.
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What is my experience of God?
Having worked professionally in the “God Business” for the past thirty years, it seems I should have something coherent and worthwhile to say about my experience of that to which I have dedicated my entire adult life. But experience is a difficult thing to talk about and the more ethereal the experience, the more difficult it is to form into words.
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Archbishop Imagines A Future For Children
June 13, 2012 in Current Comment | Tags: Children, Environment, Rio+20, Rowan Williams, The Archbishop of Canterbury | 1 comment
He has been the brunt of so much harsh criticism. It is refreshing to be reminded in his own words of the vision and light of which the soon-to-be-former Archbishop of Canterbury is capable.
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