The latest Weekly Telegraph features an article on Rowan Williams, the Archbishop of Canterbury. It is titled, ‘Is our society broken?’, and makes for very interesting reading.
Below are some excerpts from the interview – click here to read the full article.
“Is our society broken? I think it is,” he says. “We are in a phase of our culture where the fragmentation of society is far more obvious. It’s not just families, it is different ethnic communities and economic groups. We talk about access and equality the whole time, but in practice we all seem to live very segregated lives.”
“Happiness happens when you are not thinking about it, when you are inhabiting your body comfortably… when you feel at peace with yourself and the world. When we live overprotective, overstimulated lives we expect more all the time, we find it hard to be unself-conscious and just do what we do, we overanalyse.”
He intends to speak out on euthanasia. “I’m against it – morally and religiously because I don’t believe any of us has the liberty to determine the day of our death, and practically because almost all forms of legislation for assisted dying open the door to unjust and destructive pressures on people.”
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It’s all in the name:
http://peterreynolds.wordpress.com/2010/08/25/broken-society-broken-britain-brokenshire/