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Rowan Williams: ‘I don’t know whether the Anglican Communion will survive’

It is, Rowan Williams assures me, a coincidence that his new book will be published three days after the installation of Sarah Mullally as Archbishop of Canterbury.  “I will not be attending,” he says. “You don’t want to be Marley’s ghost.” Yet, fittingly – since that...

Archbishop’s Presidential Address to York Diocesan Synod, 14 March 2026

My grandma had an expression that she used when she considered someone to be sensible, reliable, and with an earthy wisdom that comes from, rather than the study of books, experience of life. She said of such a person: ‘He knows his spuds’; or...
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