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...games such as pool and darts. This semester, the pub has new hours of operation. It will be open Wednesdays and Thursdays from 5 p.m. to 1 a.m., on Fridays and Saturdays from 5 p.m. to 2 a.m., and on Sundays from 12 p.m. to 9 p.m. Student Manager Rowan R. Sheldon ‘08 said the pub is seeking to become a study space during the day, in addition to its current standing as a place to hang out at night. “We all want the place to be successful,” said Sheldon...
...found your profile of archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams both sympathetic and well balanced [June 18]. His position of leadership must be one of the least enviable within the church or even the world. The difficulties he faces between American liberals and African conservatives over the issue of homosexual clergy seem almost insoluble. It is assumed by both sides of the controversy over homosexual priests that an agreement can be reached under which all parties are forced to follow one dogmatic position. Each outpost of Anglicanism, however, has become too much the creature of its own society and culture...
...last official act before a three-month sabbatical, Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams chose a joyous one. He ordained the Reverend Canon Humphrey Southern as a new bishop. The ceremony took place in London's St. Paul's Cathedral, and the crowd smiled to see Williams, the tousle-headed, professorial leader of the Church of England and titular head of its global offshoot, the Anglican Communion, reveling in his mellifluous baritone as he prayed, sang and performed the rite of ordination. "Will you strive for the visible unity of Christ's Church?" asked Williams. Answered Southern, "By the help...
...Back in 2002, Rowan Williams was something of a prodigy. At 52, he became the youngest Archbishop of Canterbury in 200 years. "And," wrote one observer, "perhaps the cleverest," a man who had quickly established himself as one of Anglicanism's most gifted preachers and probably its pre-eminent theologian. He was a self-professed "hairy lefty," a Christian socialist arrested in a 1985 protest at a U.S. air base in England, who now criticizes the Iraq war. And he once also had a controversial stance on the theology of sexuality. In 1989 he delivered a lecture to Britain...
...last official act before a three-month sabbatical, Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams ordained a new bishop in London's St. Paul's Cathedral. Williams, the tousle-haired leader of the Church of England and titular head of its global offshoot, the Anglican Communion, performed the liturgy of ordination: "Will you strive for the visible unity of Christ's Church?" he asked. Answered the new bishop: "By the help of God, I will...