Comments on: Archbishop Williams Loses His Mind

By: MDS

MDS — Fri, 06 Feb 2009 23:57:30 +0000

And why is it that only English church guys have such bushy eyebrows, cool beards and hair. He looks like a professor in a Harry Potter film. We only have guys with bouffants and bad suits who say Gawwwd a lot. It’s really not fair at all. I’d have become a Christian way earlier than I did if the Christians I came across looked and acted more like Williams than Jim Baker and Tammy Faye. But then I do live near Branson, Mo.

By: Cindy

Cindy — Fri, 06 Feb 2009 17:42:00 +0000

why is the archbishop talking to monkeys?

Ha. Why are any of us?

By: graceshaker

graceshaker — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 19:57:01 +0000

prayer is heresy in a self-centered mind.

By: Sam Marsh

Sam Marsh — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 19:02:49 +0000

What will the church dream up next!

By: Headless Unicorn Guy

Headless Unicorn Guy — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 17:26:16 +0000

â€œDr Williams told more than 30 Primates of the 38 provinces of the Anglican Communion . . .â€

why is the archbishop talking to monkeys? — Jeuby

As Stephen Jay Gould pointed out in his essay on Bishop Usher, the ecclesiastical use of “Primate” precedes the zoological one. So your question is completely backwards. (His mental image was of an ape in Bishop Usher’s ruff-collar.)

Don’t remember which one of Gould’s essay collections that one’s in (or its title), but he traced the reasoning behind Usher’s chronology (both historical and symbolic) and his reason for doing it — an attempt to write a chronology of all human history.

By: Myrddin

Myrddin — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 13:36:23 +0000

Very interesting. Way to go Arch-Bish.

By: jeuby

jeuby — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 02:35:16 +0000

“Dr Williams told more than 30 Primates of the 38 provinces of the Anglican Communion . . .”

why is the archbishop talking to monkeys?

By: Rasseleas

Rasseleas — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 01:55:22 +0000

that was LoL funny…btw I’m just finishing up his outstanding work on Dostoevsky! Dido’s to Steve “Its a shame…” also the caricatures propagated by American media – A few years ago I was flipping thru the radio during Lunch and landed upon the Rush Limbaugh show…according to Limbaugh Rowan Williams had the audacity to pontificate that the Nativity scene, as we know it, is not found anywhere in Scripture? duh?! Therefore the Archbishop denied Xmas, was castigated and denounced as a…. “LIBERAL”

again – too funny (and sadly typical)

By: H. Lee

H. Lee — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 23:59:29 +0000

Rowan Williams has done everything anyone could think of to keep the church from splitting over the issue of homosexuality. His “reward” has been that of most peacemakers: vitriol from the far left and the far right. As a farily new (12 years) Episcopalian, I wish him well, in this and other efforts.

By: rampancy

rampancy — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 23:21:59 +0000

AHAHAHAHAHAHA. I see what you did there, iMonk. Thanks – you just made my day yet again.