Another winner from the magnificent, indefatigable John Young:
ROWAN REVEALED
THE ARCHBISHOP OF CANTERBURY on CD
On a brand new, not for profit CD entitled Rowan
Revealed, the Archbishop of
Canterbury talks frankly in a wide-ranging conversation with Canon John
Young about
… his life and faith, prayer, poetry, the press, politics, the future of the
Church, his hopes and disappointments, ‘fresh expressions’, what Jesus means to
him …
York
Courses have given away 10,000 free copies to make the
Archbishop’s words accessible to a wide audience. The Archbishop already
appears on two of York Courses’
series of ecumenical Lent courses for study groups, which feature other
well-known personalities such as actresses Patricia
Routledge and Wendy Craig, Ann
Widdecombe MP, Cardinal Cormac Murphy-O’Connor and General Sir Richard Dannatt.
Extract from
Rowan Revealed:-
John Young: Were
you particularly pained or saddened by the fact that it was a Christian Prime
Minister who took us to war?
Rowan Williams: If I’m honest, yes.
Yes I was. And I think it compounded the way in which in the Middle East and
further afield people associate western military power with Christianity. So,
in Afghanistan and Pakistan, for example, you still have death threats against
Christians and Christian institutions, premised on the idea that the United
States or the UK have taken out a few terrorists –right, we will take out a few
Christians in retaliation. It’s as crude as that. It’s utterly, utterly unrelated
to the truth on the ground. But that’s the perception, and I think that’s been
one of the worst legacies of this. That’s also why Christians have been
victimised and persecuted in Iraq, and pushed out - ethnically cleansed really
– it’s a dreadful story.
Rowan Revealed is the latest in York Courses’ developing series of CD
Conversations with eminent Christians, which include:
·
Nobel Prize winning climatologist,
Professor Sir John Houghton CBE FRS on Climate
Change and Christian Faith
·
Priest-scientist, John Polkinghorne KBE
FRS, former Professor of Mathematical Physics at Cambridge University on Science and Christian Faith
York Courses was founded in 1997
to encourage ecumenical co-operation in small study groups by two Anglican
priests (both Canons of York Minster) -John Young (best-selling Hodder author
of Teach Yourself Christianity, with
books in several languages) and Simon Stanley (former BBC Producer/Presenter).
Every year more than 50,000 people worldwide gather around a York Course.
Review
copy and transcript available from York Courses now.
Extracts
for publication – available in digital format.
Please contact Carrie Geddes for further
details.
carrie.geddes@yorkcourses.co.uk
Tel: 01904 338107
Mob: 07792
272010