Queen Elizabeth’s Anglican Faithfulness By Rowan Williams A great deal has by now been written about Queen Elizabeth, and ample tribute has been paid to her stature. It has been intriguing to see how commentators have tiptoed around the question o... Read More...
Lambeth in Retrospect: Part One From Archbishop Rowan to Archbishop Justin By Andrew Goddard The Lambeth Conference will gather in late July for the first time in 14 years, a gap between Conferences second only to the one between 1930 and... Read More...
Looking East In Winter, via Vesper Flights By Hannah Matis Rowan Williams’s new book, Looking East in Winter: Contemporary Thought and the Eastern Christian Tradition, is a challenging and crystal-clear exploration of the Philokalic tradition. If my moral fiber were sturdier, I might compare it with... Read More...
TLC’s Podcast Interviews Former ABC Rowan Williams In a special edition of The Living Church Podcast, former Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams discusses his latest book, The Way of St. Benedict. He describes how he drew on decades of fascination with Bene... Read More...
After COVID-19: A Brave New World? A Bishop in Confinement Wonders About the Future By Pierre Whalon President Emmanuel Macron of France, in a speech on March 12, 2020, described what he thinks needs to happen after the epidemic is over : We will have to learn the lessons of the moment we... Read More...
Remembering, Thinking, Imagining: Augustine, Anselm, and Rowan Remembering the past, thinking in the present, and imagining the future all interweave.
Understanding our embodiment We have been encouraged in the modern, post-transition age to lose a sense of narrative in our humanity.