More perhaps than any war for centuries, the conflict that ended sixty years ago had for us in Britain the clear character of a moral struggle.
Now the more we live and speak - this week and every week - as Church in this sense, the more we shall have to say to the real world.
I am clear that the anxieties caused by recent developments have reached the point where we will need to sit down and discuss their consequences,
I believe there is a god with all the trust and the hope and the love that there is in me. I don't know that there is a god in the sense that I know you're sitting opposite me.
Whatever happens in the long run -- and I wouldn't want to predict -- I think there are things we can do at least to address that sense of not being listened to,
I think the Christian gospel is bound to be putting questions as to how we organise our society, how we make our political decisions.
We have to learn to be human along-side all sorts of others, the ones whose company we don't greatly like.
We don't have any kind of central executive in the Anglican communion, and in many ways that's a good thing. I don't think people are asking for that,
We are still on that path, and irrevocably committed to it.
I shall want to know more about how you will come to have a full share in the good things of this country.
It seems to me rather sad, and rather revealing, that when it comes to sex we suddenly become much less intelligent about our reading of the Bible,
It really doesn't matter who you are, what you have done or not done, what you think and believe, you are still a target just by being where you are at a particular time,
Not much is to be gained simply by religious groups and religious leaders repeating slogans about the costs and evils of globalisation.
I hope we can use the time between now and then to reflect, to pray, to consult and to take counsel,
In human life generally, information, significant and otherwise, is shared in such overlapping networks, and absorbed at different levels over time.
increased crime and disorder, public nuisance and decreased public safety at a place which is dear to people from various Christian traditions.
If there is one thing I long for above all else, it is that the years to come may see Christianity in this country able again to capture the imagination of our culture, to draw the strongest energies of our thinking and feeling.
I hope that in our deliberations we will find that there are ways forward in this situation which can preserve our respect for one another and for the bonds that unite us.
If you think of intersecting circles, holy wisdom is that point at which the realities meet, overlap, intersect, interpenetrate.
The trouble with plenty of talk in and around the G8 summit was that it created an abstraction - the Problem of Poverty in Africa.
a huge fallacy to suppose that one community is somehow more intrinsically prone to violence or outrage than any other.