Respect was the focus of Archbishop Rowan Williams' Presidential Address at the Church of England's General Synod in York, on Monday morning the address also acknowledged the International work of ACC, commending Communications and Women's programmes. Church Urban Fund looks ahead and Synod moves forward in its consideration of legislation for women as bishops.
On the 6 July the eve of the G8 meeting, UN Secretary General, Kofi Annan, addressed more than 2500 people yesterday evening at St Paul's Cathedral in London.
Downing Street has this morning announced the approval of The Queen for the appointment of the Rt Revd Dr John Sentamu, currently Bishop of Birmingham, to succeed the Rt Revd Dr David Hope as the next Archbishop of York.
An appeal for the churches in Britain to help bring an end to the inequality and discrimination suffered by Palestinian Christians in the Holy Land was made today by Father Samuel Barhoum, Anglican Vicar of Nazareth
Between 1535 and 1540 seventeen monks and lay brothers of The London Charterhouse, a Carthusian monastery, were put to death because they would not accept the Act of Supremacy. The first to be executed was the Prior of Charterhouse, St John Houghton
St Paul's second letter to Corinth is about how the world can reflect God's glory back to its maker. This is made possible first by Jesus, who in his own person shows God's glory; then, reflecting from him, the glory shines from those in the company of Jesus
The Archbishop of Canterbury, the Most Revd Rowan Williams, has welcomed the announcement that HRH Prince of Wales and Mrs Camilla Parker-Bowles are to marry. In a statement from Lambeth Palace, Archbishop Rowan said...
The Archbishop of Canterbury, the Most Revd Rowan Williams, attended solemn vespers on Friday 14 January at the Roman Catholic Westminster Cathedral and preached at the service at the invitation of the Cardinal Archbishop of England, HE Cardinal Cormac Murphy-O'Connor, to mark Christian Unity Week. It was his first official visit to the cathedral
'Justice and celebration belong together, in the prophets and the Gospels.' 'God's plan is one in which all human beings are called to be both givers and receivers.' Two brief examples of remarks made by the Archbishop of Canterbury, the Most Revd Rowan Williams, as he addressed the World Mission Conference held 23-25 November 2004 in Swanwick, England
Women Bishops in the Church of England?, the report of the House of Bishops' Working Party on Women in the Episcopate, chaired by the Rt Revd Dr Michael Nazir-Ali, the Bishop of Rochester, was published yesterday
The Archbishop of Canterbury, the Most Revd Rowan Williams, has had a wide range of meetings and conversations with many groups and individuals on all sides in relation to the current concerns in the Anglican Communion
The Archbishop of Canterbury, the Most Revd Rowan Williams - speaking at one of Sunni Islam's most revered centres of learning - has urged people of faith not to use the name of God to justify violence and injustice
Church of England and Roman Catholic bishops have joined forces to urge the UK Parliament not to change the law on euthanasia, arguing that allowing assisted suicide would undermine the protection of vulnerable people. In a joint submission to the House of Lords Select Committee on the Assisted Dying for the Terminally Ill Bill, the Bill is described as "misguided" and "unnecessary"
The St Paul's Institute is to hold a series of dialogues on moral issues between the Most Revd Rowan Williams, the Archbishop of Canterbury, and leading international experts in politics, economics, the environment and world health. The series is entitled "The Worlds We Live In"
If you don't usually go to evensong or sing choruses, the word 'magnify' isn't instantly going to communicate much; it simply means what a magnifying glass does - making things look bigger
The Rt Revd Richard Chartres, the Bishop of London, gathered the diocesan family together, represented by some 3000 people, under the great dome of St Paul's Cathedral for a celebration on 22 May 2004
A good few years ago, I heard a distinguished American scholar of ancient history commenting on the proclamation of the resurrection as it would have been heard in the classical world. 'If an educated Greek or Roman had been told that someone had been raised from the dead', he said, 'his first question would have been "How do you get him back into his grave again?"'. The point was that most of those who first heard the Easter gospel would have found it grotesque or even frightening. Resurrection was not a joyful sign of hope but an alarming oddity, something potentially very dangerous.
The Archbishop of Canterbury celebrated his first anniversary today and spoke of the pressures of his job and the pain of the furore over the nomination of a gay bishop. The Most Revd Dr Rowan Williams, 53, said the level of expectation about his post as archbishop was "very, very high" and had been intensified by the long lead-up to his appointment. He said the row over the nomination as Bishop of Reading - and later withdrawal of acceptance - of the Rt Revd Jeffrey John, the gay but celibate Chancellor and Canon Theologian of Southwark Cathedral, had been at a "very high" personal cost to many people.
The Most Revd Desmond Tutu, Archbishop Emeritus of Southern Africa, today held an informal Ash Wednesday service for the staff of the Anglican Communion Office at Tavistock Crescent in London.
The independent weekly, the Church Times, has published a Lent series by Jane Williams for 2004. The new series of study and reflection guides are designed for individual and group use during Lent. The series, called “God Problems”, deals with "obstacles Christians face in deepening their faith and commitment".
With an overwhelming majority the Church of England’s General Synod yesterday voted to endorse a discussion document issued by the House of Bishops as a guide to the debate started by its 1991 report ‘Some Issues in Human Sexuality.’
Clergy training in the Church of England must give higher priority to understanding Islam, a consultation by the 11 member-agencies of the Anglican Partnership for World Mission (PWM) has concluded. The consultation, held at Launde Abbey in Leicestershire, 2-4 February, called for national guidelines to ensure clergy were competent in understanding Islam and capable of dealing with questions that their church members might raise in an era when inter-faith issues were so crucial.
Madam Chairman: as the Dean of Derby indicated there may be some members of Synod who have some questions in their mind about the issue affecting the wider Anglican Communion, and whether it is appropriate to debate such issues in this forum. And I hope you’ll bear with me if I say just a word about some of those wider issues, perhaps in explanation of why we have not thought it fit at this point to encourage such a wider debate - though questions will undoubtedly arise.
Long, long ago, very clever people decided that the human body, flesh, all material things, that all of these were in and of themselves, evil, intrinsically, inherently and always. So there was no way that the good, the pure, the sublime and, by definition, the perfectly good spirit could be united with the material. For these people, the dualists, the incarnation, God, pure spirit, becoming a human being was totally and in principle, and always, out of the question. What people thought was God become flesh in Jesus Christ, well, that was all just playacting, a charade.
The United Society for the Propagation of the Gospel (USPG), one of the Church of England’s major world mission agencies, has appointed the Rt Revd Michael Doe, Bishop of Swindon, to be its next General Secretary. Bishop Michael, who has served in Swindon since 1994, succeeds the Rt Revd Mano Rumalshah who returned to Pakistan at the end of last year to become the Bishop of Peshawar.
Saturday 31 January was an historic day for the Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge (SPCK), Liverpool Anglican Cathedral and more than 3000 young people.
This year marks the 1400th anniversary of the foundation of St Paul’s Cathedral and the re-organisation of the Diocese of London in England. The Rt Revd Richard Chartres, Bishop of the diocese, has announced a series of events and services which have been planned to celebrate this quattordecimcentennial year under the heading “London Visions, Back to the Future”.
The announcement that the government will not create a centre for asylum seekers at HMS Daedalus should not obscure the daily hardship faced by refugees and asylum seekers, a church leader said today. The Revd Nick Ralph, social responsibility adviser for the Anglican diocese of Portsmouth, urged those who opposed government plans to house 400 asylum seekers at a centre near Lee-on-the-Solent to direct their energies now at helping refugees and asylum seekers already within our communities.
The Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr Rowan Williams, was among the many religious leaders that greeted Pope Shenouda of the Coptic Orthodox Church last Friday in London
The Revd Canon Dr Marilyn McCord Adams (left) was installed at Oxford Cathedral as Regius Professor of Divinity and Canon of the Cathedral on 18 January during Evensong.
