Dr Williams welcomed the acknowledgment that there is “more to life” than individual possessions, and said that street parties being held to mark the royal wedding showed the value of shared celebrations.
However he also suggested that the proposal to devise a “well-being index” risked being meaningless if public services enjoyed by young people are axed.
His comments came in his Easter Day sermon at Canterbury Cathedral, in which the most senior cleric in the Church of England described the joyful shock experienced by Jesus’s disciples after the Resurrection.
How about sharing the good news?
Let’s think of a more selfish and self-centered measure of human life than happiness. No, I can’t think of one either.
carl
O Lord open thou our lips, and our mouth shall shew forth our ignorance.
Still it’s nice to see that Rowan has realized that the Church must be relevant. Decades of liberal implosion can’t be wrong.
Next, Rowan’s opinions and comments on sewage treatment and municipal water supply issues tied to the *theme* of resurrection.
Seriously, is this real? In my lifetime, I would not have seen this sort of nonsense spewed from the head of my old church. With every news story I am more convinced that COE and the Episcopal church has lost its collective mind. Words fail me.
wish he would stop commenting on economics (from an Oxbridge common room, lefty perspective!)…….and focus on the day job………. how ‘happy’ is the AC under his leadership? Not very….