In spite of the haze of speculation, it is still something of a shock to find myself here, coming to terms with an enormous trust placed in my hands and with the inevitable sense of inadequacy that goes with that. Rowan Williams More Quotes by Rowan Williams More Quotes From Rowan Williams To conclude: good journalism is one of the models of good conversation and communication in the wider social context. Rowan Williams journalism communication social Well, today, the diocese is more than ever a microcosm. Rowan Williams microcosm wells today It would be a real failure if agreeing that it [abortion] was not an electoral issue provided an alibi for taking it seriously as a public issue. Rowan Williams issues failure real 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. Rowan Williams prayer character sex At the end of the Middle Ages, nobody would ever have expected the monasteries to vanish from the scene within a generation - yet they did. Change does happen. Rowan Williams nobody generation end change The Church is the new creation, it is life and joy, it is the sacramental fellowship in which we share the ultimate purpose of God, made real for us now in our hearing the Word and sharing the Sacrament. Rowan Williams church god joy life I am pleased that Prince Charles and Mrs Camilla Parker Bowles have decided to take this important step. Rowan Williams prince i-am step important As the gospels present it to us, the mission of Jesus of Nazareth is about the way in which the community of God's people - historically, the Jewish people who had first received the law and the covenant - is being re-created in relation to Jesus himself. Rowan Williams community god law people