Feb 10
Rowan Williams’ leadership
I was going to post some more on this, but Justin Lewis-Anthony has really said most of it for me in these two posts:
The latter post includes this useful link to a streaming video of the lecture.
I can’t help but add this, however. I note that when people call for “leadership” they always mean a leader who will take them where they want to go. Trying to take people where they don’t want to go is always called a “failure of leadership” in the media and popular thought. Oddly enough, some decades on it’s often looked back on as prophetic, and once it was even the means of salvation.
February 10th, 2008 at 5:11 pm
Thanks for the links Doug, but could you correct my name from the feminine? I wouldn’t want any accusations of non-biblical behaviour made against me!
As for leadership, someone said this in a newspaper article at Christmas:
“Often people demand “moral leadership” from religious figures. Confession time: like others, I suspect, my heart sometimes sinks when I hear this, and I think, cynically, that it’s just about people wanting religious leaders to tell them that they’re right.”
Guess who said that?
February 10th, 2008 at 6:49 pm
Justin: my apologies. I have no idea how I missed that egregious feminisation of your name. It is now corrected.
And of course, your quote is +RW.