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  • 1 Jan 2013
    Williams takes his first steps to freedom as a former archbishop

    As the New Year arrives, Dr Rowan Williams is enjoying his first day formally free of the responsibilities of being Archbishop of Canterbury.

  • 21 Nov 2012
    Williams urges realism on Church which has 'lost credibility'

    The Church of England needs a reality check about the way it is perceived and the way it operates, the Archbishop of Canterbury has declared.

  • 22 Oct 2012
    Archbishop urges support for women bishops legislation

    Archbishop of Canterbury Dr Rowan Williams has begun a campaign to persuade Church of England General Synod members to back women bishops.

  • 20 Jun 2012
    Archbishop Rowan Williams challenges 'myths' over aid

    The Archbishop of Canterbury has challenged the ‘myths’ around international development, praising the overseas aid budget for its value for money.

  • 2 Apr 2012
    An Archbishop's resignation: issues of power and responsibility

    What seems to have crystallised as the key to Archbishop Rowan Williams’ recent (somewhat early) resignation from his job, and as head of the global Anglican Communion, is the issue of sexuality. But, Alison Jasper suggests, this is part of a wider matrix of power and position connected to the deployment of the discursive category ‘religion’ and to the secular state acquiring a normative status.

  • 19 Mar 2012
    Can Rowan Williams (still) rescue us from idiocy?

    Rowan Williams' archbishopric was and is far from perfect, says Simon Barrow. Of course. But if we too readily dismiss the attempts of humane, spiritual and thoughtful people like Dr Williams to point out that our difficulties are not just about someone else’s blockheadedness, we may be nearer the idiocratic realm and further from the hoped-for realm of God and of reason than we think.

  • 19 Mar 2012
    Rowan Williams: People before politics?

    Time and again in the midst of "events, dear boy, events" (Harold Macmillan's famous response to an interrogation about what is the biggest difficulty in being Prime Minister), I keep coming back to Dutch theologian Harry Kuitert's observation that while "everything is politics, politics is not everything".

  • 19 Mar 2012
    WCC expresses gratitude for Rowan Williams’ collaboration

    The World Council of Churches has expressed admiration for Dr Rowan Williams' significant contribution to the ecumenical movement over several years.

  • 23 Feb 2012
    Dawkins and Williams discuss human origins

    Archbishop of Canterbury Dr Rowan Williams, former Oxford don and outspoken atheist Dr Richard Dawkins and philosopher Professor Anthony Kenny engaged in a public discussion of the origin of human life in Oxford today.

  • 21 Feb 2012
    Archbishop of Canterbury to deliver human rights lecture

    The Archbishop of canterbury is due to deliver a lecture on 'Faith, human rights and human dignity' of the Ecumenical Centre in Geneva at the invitation of the WCC.