"People in hotels, hostels, detention centres, are not there as a lifestyle choice – which is why it is not only unjust but absurd to punish them for being there...Collective blame and indiscriminate violence are always the beginning of real moral corruption." www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

On 4th June, after his General Audience, Pope Leo XIV was greeted by Rowan Williams. youtu.be/8NKB6FY3WLM?...

Rowan Williams wrote a typically wise piece a few years ago on "the cost of living", and what happens "When “living” becomes a commodity that some can afford and some can’t". Well worth a read. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

What if faith isn’t about certainty, but about how we see?
 What if Christianity still has something worth discovering — even after it all unravels? Uploading Monday.

America’s broken commonwealth. The nation’s founding myth was based on faith and solidarity – but it also contained the roots of today’s democratic crisis. Rowan Williams in @newstatesman.com www.newstatesman.com/culture/book...

God is an Englishman - review. www.telegraph.co.uk/books/non-fi...

'That does not alter the pervasiveness of anti-Judaism in pretty well all varieties of Christianity in this period.' Rowan Williams on the extraordinary diversity of early Christian communities

The Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks Annual Memorial Lecture 2025 | Lord Rowan ... youtu.be/LiCllaQa5_U?...

When politicians tell us to focus on growth we need to ask: ‘Why, and for whom?’ www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Sermon at Choral Evensong In Memory of Robert Willis 02/02/25 www.youtube.com/watch?v=8nfl...

We Who Wrestle With God by Jordan Peterson. A culture warrior out of his depth. Guardian review: www.theguardian.com/books/2024/n...

Simon Critchley’s On Mysticism shows how the language of religious rapture can help us teach us how to live. Review, New Statesman: www.newstatesman.com/culture/book...