The difference between score and performance
I’ve often thought that the difference between reading the text of one of Dr William’s speeches, and hearing him delivering it, is like the difference between reading a music score and hearing the...
View ArticleIn case the Orwell didn’t ring any bells…
… then how about this for a description of the last 48 hours: An archbishop once gave an oration On religion and law in our nation; When we heard what he said We all stoned him down dead, To protect...
View ArticleRowan Williams and Sharia: A Guide for the Perplexed
Mike Higton, of Exeter University, has really done a magnificent job of producing a summary of the Archbishop’s now notorious speech: actually, three summaries; brief, longer and detailed. I mentioned...
View Article“heavy disagreement”
‘The prevailing attitude…was one of heavy disagreement with a number of things which the [speaker] had not said’. (Ronald Knox) After forty eight hours in which people have been outraged by what the...
View ArticleTwo narratives about Rowan Williams
Again, Mike Higton has nailed it exactly in his excellent commentary on ‘Shariagate’ (and I’m so disappointed it hasn’t been called that by the tabloids and broadsheets). This is how Higton concludes,...
View ArticleWittgenstein to Williams (or Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon)
Do you know the drinking game “Six degrees of Kevin Bacon“? Sam Norton and Mike Higton have just invented its theological/philosophical equivalent: Wittgenstein to Williams in two steps. First, this is...
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Anglican Roots : Movement 1 / The Benedictines
[Previous in series] [Next in series]Benedict was a Roman nobleman who lived in the last years of the Roman imperial rule. He was born in about AD 480 and died about 70 years later, shortly after Rome...
View ArticleDr Rowan Williams and “The Now Show”
It comes to something when the affairs of the Anglican Communion become the stuff of light satirical comedy; it is even stranger when the satirical comedy is pointedly favourable towards the Archbishop...
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KGH : Weaver — Weaving, Worship and Worth
[Previous in series] Vincent Donovan, in his experiences with the Masai, discovered the importance of the ‘community focus person’, the man whose job “in a very real way is to enable that community to...
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The Miracle of Amazon’s Heuristics?
Today an email from Amazon, noting my purchasing pattern, and based upon the purchasing patterns of other discerning consumers, suggesting a book I might like to buy. Rowan Williams and careers advice?...
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