Rowan Williams

Anglican and Catholic bishops in talks on common Christian witness

Posted: Monday, November 17, 2008, 14:48 (GMT) Members of the Church of England House of Bishops and the Roman Catholic Bishops’ Conference of England and Wales are in London today for their second bi-lateral meeting on shared...

Scripture Union opens new multifaith youth work training centre

Posted: Monday, November 17, 2008, 15:04 (GMT) A new facility run by Scripture Union for training youth workers and church leaders in the area of multi-faith work has opened recently in Birmingham. The Youth Encounter Centre...

UK bishop flays attacks on Indian Xians

London: The head of the Church of England has contrasted the “organised attacks” on Christians in Orissa with the treatment of Hindus in Britain, and said India risks losing its place as “an international beacon” if the...

I loved England...and Rowan, says German priest who almost married the Archbishop

It was a world of duffel coats, thick black-rimmed glasses, folk music, coffee mornings and intense conversations about matters theological. Cambridge University in the Seventies was where the Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr Rowan...

British faith leaders visit former Nazi death camps in Poland

Archbishop of Canterbury Dr Rowan Williams and Chief Rabbi Sir Jonathan Sacks joined representatives from different religious communities at the Holocaust Educational Trust’s ‘Lessons from Auschwitz Project’ this week.

Biblican realism

Johan Maurer writes about Biblical realism As the U.S. president-elect Barack Obama prepares himself and his leadership team for the tasks ahead, I find my optimism tempered by these sober words from Chris Hedges’ elegant rant...

Council of General Synod Highlights: November 14, 2008

November 14, 2008 -- Opening Formalities The Primate welcomed COGS members and offered congratulations to several who had been honoured in their diocese. Suzanne Lawson then reminded COGS about their process of consensus...

Concerns expressed over Indaba group manipulation

By George Conger The Archbishop of Jerusalem and the Middle East has welcomed Dr. Rowan Williams’ decision to hold the 2009 Primates Meeting in Alexandria, Egypt, telling The Church of England Newspaper the witness of Egypt’s...

A student’s brush with Orthodoxy

Would Rowan Williams remain an Anglican? The answer wasn’t obvious at Oxford in the 1970s. Rupert Shortt tells the story in the first of three extracts from his new biography of the Archbishop DID he really stand on the...

Canada: Conservative clergy unveil new plan

By Stuart Laidlaw, Toronto Star Network proponents say even critics might support alternative structure to win peace Breakaway conservative Anglicans hope to set up a new entity within the church to rival the established power...

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