The Tragic Imagination By Rowan Williams The Literary Agenda Series Oxford University Press. Pp. 168. $24.95 Review by Christine Havens The Tragic Imagination by Rowan Williams is one of a dozen books in the Literary Agenda series by Oxford University Press. Other titles in the series include Readers’ Liberation, Is Literature Healthy?, and Tales of Literacy for … [Read more...] about Storytelling Relearned
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Post-Katrina Church to Close
All Souls Church and Community Center, which Archbishop Rowan Williams visited and blessed in 2007, will celebrate its final service on Jan. 8. All Souls emerged from Episcopalians’ relief work in the Lower Ninth Ward amid the devastation that followed Hurricane Katrina. The church was based in a former Walgreens store at the corner of Flood Street and St. Claude Avenue in … [Read more...] about Post-Katrina Church to Close
Williams on Young Shakespeare
Briyyz/Flickr and the National Portrait Gallery Adapted from Gavin Drake, ACNS A play written by the 104th Archbishop of Canterbury, Rowan Williams, about the “lost years” of celebrated English playwright Williams Shakespeare has opened at the Dylan Thomas Theatre in Swansea, Wales. Shakeshafte is set in 1581 and depicts Shakespeare as a Roman Catholic at … [Read more...] about Williams on Young Shakespeare
Job and Waggled Eyebrows
Terry Gross of National Public Radio’s Fresh Air interviewed British actor Christopher Eccleston on Monday, and the conversation is suffused with talk of God and Anglicanism. Eccleston discusses his father’s final years of Alzheimer’s, his role in The A Word (BBC), his portrayal of an Episcopal priest on The Leftovers (HBO), and the Book of Job. As Eccleston discusses … [Read more...] about Job and Waggled Eyebrows
‘God’s Truth Will Survive’
20 Minutes with Rowan Williams The Rt. Rev. Rowan Douglas Williams, Baron Williams of Oystermouth in the City and County of Swansea, has served as master of Magdalene College at the University of Cambridge since 2013. He was Archbishop of Canterbury from 2002 to 2012. The Rev. Andrew Petiprin interviewed Baron Williams in Miami, where he preached at the institution of the … [Read more...] about ‘God’s Truth Will Survive’
Discipline in Christian Basics
Review by Paul A. Nesta In lectures originally given as a Holy Week series at Canterbury Cathedral, Rowan Williams imagines what a community “might hope to become” through baptism, the Bible, Eucharist, and prayer. Baptism is the event whereby people are formally brought into the Christian community. The effect of the baptismal event is a fundamental union with Christ in his … [Read more...] about Discipline in Christian Basics
Scrutiny, Patience, Engagement
By Derek OlsenThe Most Rev. Rowan Williams, 104th Archbishop of Canterbury, delivered the 2014 Dunning Memorial Lecture to a packed house in Baltimore on April 3. Williams spoke at the Ecumenical Institute of Theology at St. Mary’s Seminary and University, which in previous years has welcomed James Dunn, Miroslav Volf, N.T. Wright, and Stanley Hauerwas. All ticketed seats in … [Read more...] about Scrutiny, Patience, Engagement
Podcast Lands Baron Williams
Adapted from Seminary of the SouthwestProfessors Anthony Baker and Scott Bader-Saye of Seminary of the Southwest will interview Baron Rowan Williams — 104th Archbishop of Canterbury and master at Magdalene College, Cambridge University — June 24.“I just emailed him about Theology Studio, told him what we do, and requested an interview,” Baker said. “The focus of the interview … [Read more...] about Podcast Lands Baron Williams