Rowan Williams, archbishop of Canterbury since 2002, is the first Welshman in 1,000 years to hold the office. A theologian of some renown, he has stirred up controversy with his outspoken position in ...

LONDON (RNS) Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams said Friday (March 16) he will step down at the end of 2012, setting the stage for the unique process of government officials appointing the new ...

This morning, the Archbishop of Canterbury, Rowan Williams, the spiritual head of the Anglican Church, announced that he is stepping down. This is not normally the kind of news that would be of much ...

Two of our greatest thinkers tackle humanity’s key questions. By Rowan Williams and John Gray Last weekend, Rowan Williams and John Gray, two of Britain’s foremost intellectuals (who are also old ...

Read additional comments on the appointment of Rowan Williams as the 104th Archbishop of Canterbury: Rowan Williams is perhaps the most significant theologian of his generation. But what makes him so ...

If you look up Rowan Williams on Wikipedia, you’ll find out that he’s actually Rowan Douglas Williams, Baron Williams of Oystermouth, PC (member of the British Privy Council), FBA (Fellow of the ...

Former oil executive and recent bishop Justin Welby brings a very different charism to the Archbishop of Canterbury, and cannot but provoke comparisons with Rowan Williams's decade in the office.

I knew that Rowan Williams, once the Archbishop of Canterbury, knew a lot about Eastern Christian practice, but I did not know that he begins his day with the Jesus Prayer. More: Readers of Salinger’s ...

Rowan Williams reviews The Benedict Option in New Statesman. Link to the review is here. He is ambivalent about the book. He does, however, do a great job of summing up the book’s message succinctly: ...

Doctor Rowan Williams is to become the first leader of the Church of England to make a pilgrimage to the Roman Catholic shrine of Lourdes. The Archbishop of Canterbury flies to the shrine of Our Lady ...

The Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr. Rowan Williams, is a poet who digs The Simpsons Sure, the eyes of the world will be trained on a certain prince and his fiancée in Westminster Abbey on April 29. But ...

This past Saturday, the six-county Episcopal Diocese of Los Angeles elected the Rev. Cannon Mary Glasspool to the office of bishop suffragan. Glasspool, who is an openly partnered lesbian, was elected ...