[Rowan] Williams, who is attending General Convention for the first time, said that the “task before us as people of faith is to name this as a crisis of truthfulness and to challenge ourselves about the truth and above all to live in the truth.”
He underscored the importance of transparency and the building of relationships. “Trust doesn’t happen simply because someone says ‘trust me,'” he said. “Trust happens almost when you’re not noticing it — when the relationship is such that you know the quality of the person you’re dealing with, and that takes time.”
Williams concluded his address by underscoring the need for human beings to grow together “in liberty and communion [which] is at the heart of what we want to say to world that is indeed in crisis.”