Rowan D. Williams

Bad human communication leaves us less room to grow. ↗

— Rowan D. Williams

#bad #grow #human #leaves #less

A flourishing, morally credible media is a vital component in the maintenance of genuinely public talk, argument about common good. ↗

— Rowan D. Williams

#argument #common #common good #component #credible

Christian teaching about sex is not a set of isolated prohibitions; it is an integral part of what the Bible has to say about living in such a way that our lives communicate the character of God. ↗

— Rowan D. Williams

#bible #character #christian #communicate #god

In a spiritually sensitive culture, then, it might well be that age is something to be admired or envied. ↗

— Rowan D. Williams

#age #culture #envied #might #sensitive

To be a Christian is to believe we are commanded and authorised to say certain things to the world; to say things that will make disciples of all nations. ↗

— Rowan D. Williams

#believe #certain #certain things #christian #commanded

A public is a necessary fiction. ↗

— Rowan D. Williams

#necessary #public

Actual human discourse happens within a number of contexts, not in some sort of unified public forum. ↗

— Rowan D. Williams

#contexts #discourse #forum #happens #human

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. ↗

— Rowan D. Williams

#become #created #eternal #finite #god

Christians should emphatically be campaigning for justice for the poor - but the Church is not a campaign. ↗

— Rowan D. Williams

#campaigning #christians #church #emphatically #justice

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. ↗

— Rowan D. Williams

#average #coming #economists #health #income