Clik here to view.
Wilfred Owen: The Peter Pan of the trenches
The anti-heroic reading of the First World War did not begin with Blackadder - Wilfred Owen has far more to answer for than Richard Curtis, says the former Archbishop of Canterbury, Rowan...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Business as usual: how we are dominated by the language of markets
Rowan Williams reviews Mammon’s Kingdom by David Marquand and wonders if Britain has lost all sense of moral purpose.These little piggies went to market. Photo: Corbis Mammon’s Kingdom: an Essay on...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Myth busting: Rowan Williams on Dylan Thomas
The former Archbishop of Canterbury and lead NS book reviewer discusses a new biography of the Welsh poet and a new edition of his short stories. Dylan Thomas. Image: Hulton Archive/Getty. Tinting by...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Living the good life: Rowan Williams on Marilynne Robinson
Robinson’s trilogy set in small-town Christian America is more than great fiction – it is a political and ethical project. Everything is illuminated: Marilynne Robinson. Photo: Danny Wilcox...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Rowan Williams: why we need fairy tales now more than ever
Fairy tales are capable of depicting the hardest challenges we face as human beings.Sofía Oria in “Blancanieves”, a 2012 Spanish film based on "Snow White" by the Brothers Grimm.Once Upon a Time: a...
View ArticleClik here to view.
The hurt locker: Rowan Williams on the anguish of T S Eliot
Young Eliot, the first volume of Robert Crawford's new T S Eliot biography, shows how a bruising home life led to poetic breakthrough.Thomas and first wife Vivien Eliot in London, 1916.Young Eliot:...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Who was Judas: the man who was offered goodness and said “No”
Was Judas an evil man who chose to betray Christ of his own free will – or did God make him do it?A ceiling at the Church of Atotonilco, Mexico, featuring Christ and Judas. Photo: Wikimedia Commons...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Rowan Williams: can we ever be in charge of our own lives?
The debate over freedom is a complex, extended one.Pulling the strings. Picture: Tina Modotti/AKG-ImagesPulling the strings. Picture: Tina Modotti/AKG-Images Freedom Regained: the Possibility of Free...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Rowan Williams: Blasphemy can provoke violence – and be a progressive force...
The former Archbishop of Canterbury on how blasphamy can be a means to deeper religious understanding.Through fire to faith? To many Muslims, the charred remnants of a Quran pose a threat. Photo: Joe...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Rowan Williams: Violence is an unavoidable part of being human
Violence in human beings has something to do with our sense of meaning, our sense that something is at stake in our identity or integrity.Pro-Russian volunteers gather in Simferopol's Lenin square....
View Article
