Rowan Williams
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“The joy of the Lord is your strength.” (Nehemiah 8:10) It’s a verse often used in certain quarters, under the rubric of encouragement, to bludgeon the hurting for a failure to demonstrate happiness in pain. No thought given to the harm this misapplication does or what it implies, namely that God is not to be
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I don’t know where Simon Barrow came across this quotation on grief from Rowan Williams, but it’s worth reproducing here: “[G]rief and desperate loneliness aren’t political things but human things. It’s only when we can get to the humanity can we begin to get beyond the sterility of historic racial and religious conflicts. Facing the
Amy Jo Philip 