Teaser Tuesday - Oct 8

Teaser Tuesday
The rules are:

• Grab your current read.
• Let the book fall open to a random page.
• Share with us two (2) 'teaser' sentences from that page, somewhere between lines 7 and 12.
• You also need to share the title and author of the book that you’re getting your 'teaser' from .. that way people can have some great book recommendations if they like the teaser you've given!

During the mid-1970's and subsequently, Rowan came to see that these arguments were still more significant when given a religious twist. If language itself involves an act of trust by expecting to evoke a shared world, the a progressively suggestive inference may be drawn: that there is an affinity between the structure of thinking and the structure of reality - an affinity where love and imagination are integral to the picture.

Some hard thinking(!) required there - a re-read of Rowan's Rule by Rupert Shortt, I read and teased it back in 2009, I bought the book a few years ago and am only now getting around to reading my own copy. The context of the quote is Rowan Williams (for this is a biography of him!) thoughts on Decartes, Wittgenstein and Edith Stein.

Greening the economy

Rowan Williams' message for the Rio+20 conference

If the world is a gift how to hand it on to future generations?

Celebrating youth

..and not treating them as a problem. Rowan Williams' New year message.

I'm sorry I'll blog that again

Looks like I was right to be doubtful, this is the Archbishop's 2010 New Year message:

The text is here

We share the risks. The big question is, can we share the hopes and create the possibilities? Because it's when we do share the hopes that we really see what it is to belong together as human beings, discovering our own humanity as we honour the human dignity of others.

I'll own this quote too!
So ekklesia, at least, has it wrong and I'm pretty certain that I heard a news bulletin yesterday, referring to the message, talking about children as a treasure so I guess the BBC at one stage got confused too! The BBC - at least on their web site - has it correct now.

The worth of an individual

Rowan Williams New Year message for 2010 - at least I hope it is the one for 2010 the youtube page I got this from appears to be in some doubt where it has a 2008 date and very old comments. Ekklesia though is in no doubt and has the same words!

Jesus said where our treasure is, that's where our hearts will be. Our hearts will be in a very bad way if they're focused only on the state of our finances. They'll be healthy if they are capable of turning outwards, looking at the real treasure that is our fellow human beings.

May that be true for us all through this coming year.