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Baby Blue Liveblogged Last Night's General Convention Summit

Posted on July 9, 2009 by Kendall Harmon

Rowan Williams has now come to the podium to talk about the current economic crisis. “As providence would have it,” Rowan says, referring to the publication of Pope Benedict’s own publication on the same topic, Love in Truth, and quotes the Pope. “Truth needs to be sought, found, and express in … charity … and charity needs to be practiced in the light of truth.”

What we’ve seen in our world in the last six to nine months is a crisis of truthfulness. We have suddenly discovered that we’ve been lying to ourselves, says Rowan Williams.

In three different ways.

1. Crisis in Ordinary Truthfulness and Trustworthiness – breakdown in truth telling in our financial world. Now will say openly, a steady and drastic erosion of the mutual values of trust. Our word has not been our bond, we have learned to tolerate high levels of evasion and anti-relational practices….

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One comment on “Baby Blue Liveblogged Last Night's General Convention Summit”

  1. driver8 says:
    July 9, 2009 at 7:35 pm

    Is he talking about the Anglican Communion? Ah – I see he is

    We begin with truth in our dealings with one another, transparency, building a relationship. Trust doesn’t have simply because someone says, “Trust me,” in fact, the opposite. Trust happens almost when you’re not noticing it. When you know the quality of the person you are dealing with – that takes time. We need to build a culture of patience if we’re going to build a culture of transparency. The Anglican family needs to hear this as much as the financial family, we need to get our own house in order, Rowan says.