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Even when I was Archbishop of Wales and working with new bishops, I used to say, not realising quite how true it was, 'One of the things you will do as a bishop is disappoint people'.

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I do feel that federation, loose parallel processes, are less than we've got, less than we could have and, in the very long run, less than what God wants in the Church.

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Whether something is old-fashioned or not doesn't resolve the question of whether it's true or not. I can see the temptation of simply thinking, 'Well, there's a cultural mainstream which flows neatly in one direction. You just align with it'. And that really won't do.

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A flourishing, morally credible media is a vital component in the maintenance of genuinely public talk, argument about common good.

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A public is a necessary fiction.

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Christian teaching about sex is not a set of isolated prohibitions; it is an integral part of what the Bible has to say about living in such a way that our lives communicate the character of God.

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Christians should emphatically be campaigning for justice for the poor - but the Church is not a campaign.

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Economists are coming to acknowledge that measures of national wealth and poverty in terms strictly of average income tell you little that is significant of the health or viability of a society.

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Friendship is something that creates equality and mutuality, not a reward for finding equality or a way of intensifying existing mutuality.

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In loving his own productive, generative, generous love, God loves all those ways in which that love can be realised in creation.

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Biography

Nationality: English

Type: Theologian

Born: June 14th, 1950

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