Rowan Williams

Britain grapples with role for Islamic justice

Britain grapples with role for Islamic justice : The woman in black wanted an Islamic divorce. Despite a raucous national debate over the limits of religious tolerance and the pre-eminence of British law, the tenets of Shariah,...

Plans to create a conservative province ‘disturbing,’ says primate

By Leigh Anne Williams, Anglican Journal News of a plan to create a new North American Anglican province that would be defined by conservative theology rather than a geographic location may have been greeted with enthusiasm by...

Top Bishop in Britain visits Balaji temple

London (PTI): The top bishop in Britain has visited Europe's largest Hindu temple in the country to celebrate the growing "friendship" between the Hindus and Christian communities in the UK. The Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan...

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...

Resacralising the Earth> by Richard King

This is an advance look at of one of the key presentations at the forthcoming Entheogenesis Australis 2008 Symposium... The Medical Marijuana Movement, alongside the Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies (MAPS)...

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...

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.

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...

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...

Anglican Church lacks leadership say bishops

The Archbishop of Canterbury has failed to provide leadership in the Anglican Church's war over homosexuality, according to two of his bishops. By Jonathan Wynne-Jones, Religious Affairs Correspondent In a speech to...

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