Tag: Rowan Williams
Hallowed Be Your Name
In Petition of the Self-Sanctification of God’s Name Deploying theological categories as credible and capable resources for addressing any number of questions that vex our society and/or our subjectivity is an uncertain proposition. In the post-Christian West it’s taken for granted that religious discourse, if not yet altogether meaningless, is certainly in want of a […]
Rowan Williams on Self-Judgment
Rowan Williams on self-judgment Bonhoeffer writes [in a poem on his imprisonment], “They often tell me / I would step from my cell’s confinement / calmly, cheerfully, firmly, / like a squire from his country-house.” … But the poem is about the great gulf between what “they” see – a confident, adult, rational, prayerful, faithful, […]
Rowan Williams on Marriage
It’s a few years old, but so what? It’s still Williams, and on point.
Rowan Williams on Fairy Tales
Rowan Williams on Why Adults Don’t Outgrow Fairy Tales In our day, it is adults who seem most to need and use them [fairy tales], because they are just about the only stories we have in common with which to think through deep dilemmas and to keep alive registers of emotion and imagination otherwise being […]
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