“We can at least see that the question is asked, and asked on the basis of a clear recognition that there is no way of manipulating our environment that is without cost or consequence - and thus also of a recognition that we are inextricably bound up with the destiny of our world. There is no guarantee that the world we live in will "tolerate" us indefinitely if we prove ourselves unable to live within its constraints.” IfsWorldWayDestinyClearEnvironmentCostProveConsequenceBasesEnvironmentalBoundsRecognitionGuaranteesOur WorldSustainabilityTolerateOur EnvironmentConstraintsGuarantees That Author:Rowan Williams
“I concluded that an active sexual relationship between two people of the same sex might therefore reflect the love of God in a way comparable to marriage, if and only if it had the about it the same character of absolute covenanted faithfulness.” PeopleIfsWayYearsTwoCharacterMightSexPrayerStudyAbsolutesActiveConclusionGod LoveFaithfulnessIfs And Author:Rowan Williams
“Violence is not to be undertaken by private persons. If a state or administration acts without due and visible attention to agreed international process, it acts in a way analogous to a private person. It purports to be judge of its own interest.” IfsWayPersonsStatesProcessInterestAttentionViolenceJudgingInternationalDuesAdministrationVisible Author:Rowan Williams
“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.” WayCharacterChristianSexOur LivesTeachingCommunicateChristian LivingIsolatedProhibitionCharacter Of GodChristian Teaching Author:Rowan Williams
“How do we live in a way that shows an understanding that we genuinely live in a shared world, not one that simply belongs to us?” WorldWayShowsUnderstanding Book:Faith in the Public Square Source: Faith in the Public Square
“Friendship is something that creates equality and mutuality, not a reward for finding equality or a way of intensifying existing mutuality.” WayFindingsRewardsEquality Author:Rowan Williams
“In loving his own productive, generative, generous love, God loves all those ways in which that love can be realised in creation.” WayLoveCreationGod LoveGenerousProductiveRealisedGenerous Love Author:Rowan Williams
“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.” WorldWayWisdomObjectsEternalRealmsFiniteInteractingActuality Author:Rowan Williams
