Rowan D. Williams

Rowan D. Williams

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

Tags: Live, Start, Worrying

Rowan D. Williams

So every creative act strives to attain an absolute status; it longs to create a world of beauty to triumph over chaos and convert it to order.

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Bad human communication leaves us less room to grow.

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To conclude: good journalism is one of the models of good conversation and communication in the wider social context.

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Friendship is something that creates equality and mutuality, not a reward for finding equality or a way of intensifying existing mutuality.

Tags: Friendship, Finding, Reward

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Marriage has a unique place because it speaks of an absolute faithfulness, a covenant between radically different persons, male and female; and so it echoes the absolute covenant of God with his chosen, a covenant between radically different partners.

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To help the poor to a capacity for action and liberty is something essential for one's own health as well as theirs: there is a needful gift they have to offer which cannot be offered so long as they are confined by poverty.

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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.

Tags: Society, Little, Poverty

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In sharp contrast to the idea that this stage of life is enviable, we hear high levels of anxiety about getting old, anxieties about health, mobility, access to facilities, simple routine care and attention.

Tags: Life, Care, Simple

Rowan D. Williams

The answer was that in Burundi, having a clean bill of health has taken on a very particular meaning: unless and until you have paid for your hospital treatment, you simply can't leave, you are in effect a captive.

Tags: Until, Leave, Meaning

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