Seasonal greetings, sermons and talks
Advent
Advent Letter to Primates of the Anglican Communion & Moderators of the United Churches, 14 Dec 2007. http://rowanwilliams.archbishopofcanterbury.org/articles.php/631/the-archbishops-advent-letter-to-primates-2007.html.
Seasonal reflection for Advent, 25 Feb, 2009. YouTube video: 3:57, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PzTYPeiiSpU. [Transcript] http://rowanwilliams.archbishopofcanterbury.org/pages/advent-video.html.
‘A Reflection on Advent.’ In Darkness Yielding: Liturgies, Prayers and Reflections for Advent, Christmas, Holy Week and Easter, Rev Edn. Hymns Ancient and Modern, 2009 and Canterbury Press: Norwich, 2011.
Advent letter to Anglican Primates, 30 Nov 2011. http://rowanwilliams.archbishopofcanterbury.org/articles.php/2268/archbishops-advent-letter-to-anglican-primates.html.
‘On Advent.’ YouTube video, 10:07, posted 8 Dec 2011. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PzTYPeiiSpU.
Christmas
‘Telling That Christmas Story Like it Is’. The Guardian, 23 Dec 2000.
Christmas message to the Anglican Communion, 6 Dec 2002. http://rowanwilliams.archbishopofcanterbury.org/articles.php/1682/christmas-message-for-the-anglican-communion.html.
Christmas Day Broadcast 2002. ‘The Kingdom of the Simple’. In Choose Life: Christmas and Easter Sermons in Canterbury Cathedral, 3–11. London: Bloomsbury, 2013.
Christmas Sermon 2003, ‘Fear Not’. In Choose Life: Christmas and Easter Sermons in Canterbury Cathedral, 13–22. London: Bloomsbury, 2013. See also: http://rowanwilliams.archbishopofcanterbury.org/articles.php/1620/christmas-sermon-2003.html
Christmas Sermon 2004. ‘From his Fulness We Have Received ‘. In Choose Life: Christmas and Easter Sermons in Canterbury Cathedral, 23–30. London: Bloomsbury, 2013. See also: http://rowanwilliams.archbishopofcanterbury.org/articles.php/1556/christmas-story-challenges-world-to-right-injtice-archbishops-christmas-sermon-2004.html
Christmas Sermon 2005. ‘The Life Story of God’. In Choose Life: Christmas and Easter Sermons in Canterbury Cathedral, 31–8. London: Bloomsbury, 2013. See also: http://rowanwilliams.archbishopofcanterbury.org/articles.php/1605/archbishops-christmas-day-sermon-2005.html
Christmas Day message to Heads of Churches, 25 Dec 2006. http://rowanwilliams.archbishopofcanterbury.org/articles.php/635/christmas-message-to-the-heads-of-churches.html.
Christmas Sermon 2006. ‘The Poorest Deserve the Best.’ In Choose Life: Christmas and Easter Sermons in Canterbury Cathedral, 39–47 London: Bloomsbury, 2013. See also: http://rowanwilliams.archbishopofcanterbury.org/articles.php/1451/christmas-day-sermon-2006-the-poorest-deserve-the-best.html.
Christmas Sermon 2007. ‘The Marriage of Heaven and Earth.’ In Choose Life: Christmas and Easter Sermons in Canterbury Cathedral, 49–58. London: Bloomsbury, 2013. See Also: ‘The Joy and the Sorrow of God’. In Preaching the Incarnation. Edited by Peter K Stevenson and Stephen I Wright, 37–54. Louisville: Westminster John Knox Press, 2010. See also: http://rowanwilliams.archbishopofcanterbury.org/articles.php/1584/archbishops-christmas-sermon-2007.html
‘Put aside your principles and remember: all you need is love.’ The Daily Telegraph, 22 Dec 2008. See also: http://rowanwilliams.archbishopofcanterbury.org/articles.php/608/put-aside-your-principles-and-remember-all-you-need-is-love.html.
Christmas Eve, The Times, 24 Dec 2008. See also: http://rowanwilliams.archbishopofcanterbury.org/articles.php/607/the-times-on-christmas-eve.html.
‘Let a Child Be a Child.’ In Darkness Yielding: Liturgies, Prayers and Reflections for Christmas, Holy Week and Easter. 3rd edn. Edited by Rowan Williams, W. H. Vanstone, Sylvia Sands, Percy Martyn, and Jim Cotter. Norwich: Canterbury Press, 2009.
Christmas Sermon 2008. ‘Global Saviours, Mortal Messiahs.’ In Choose Life: Christmas and Easter Sermons in Canterbury Cathedral, 59–67. London: Bloomsbury, 2013. See also: http://rowanwilliams.archbishopofcanterbury.org/articles.php/957/archbishop-of-canterburys-christmas-sermon-2008.html
Christmas Message to the Anglican Communion, 15 Dec 2008. http://rowanwilliams.archbishopofcanterbury.org/articles.php/1521/archbishop-of-canterburys-christmas-message-to-the-anglican-communion.html.
Christmas message to listeners of ‘Wake up to Wogan.’ BBC Radio 2 ‘Pause for Thought’ with Terry Wogan, 19 Dec 2008. http://rowanwilliams.archbishopofcanterbury.org/articles.php/674/archbishops-christmas-message-on-bbc-radio-2-pause-for-thought-with-terry-wogan.html.
Christmas message to listeners of ‘Wake up . . . Archbishop on Pause for Thought with Terry Wogan, BBC Radio 2, 8 Dec 2009. http://rowanwilliams.archbishopofcanterbury.org/articles.php/658/archbishop-on-pause-for-thought-with-terry-wogan-bbc-radio-2.html.
Christmas Sermon 2009. ‘The Heir of All Creation.’ In Choose Life: Christmas and Easter Sermons in Canterbury Cathedral, 69–77. London: Bloomsbury, 2013. See also: http://rowanwilliams.archbishopofcanterbury.org/articles.php/849/archbishop-of-canterburys-christmas-sermon-2009-christmas-teaches–joy-of-dependence.html
Christmas message to listeners of Chris Evans’ Breakfast Show. BBC Radio 2 Pause for Thought, 1 Dec 2010. See also: http://rowanwilliams.archbishopofcanterbury.org/articles.php/549/bbc-radio-2-pause-for-thought-chris-evans-breakfast-show.html.
Christmas Sermon 2010. ‘Great is Thy Faithfulness.’ In Choose Life: Christmas and Easter Sermons in Canterbury Cathedral, 79–87. London: Bloomsbury, 2013. See also: http://rowanwilliams.archbishopofcanterbury.org/articles.php/605/2010-christmas-sermon.html
Ecumenical Christmas letter to Churches, 7 Dec 2011. http://rowanwilliams.archbishopofcanterbury.org/articles.php/2275/archbishops-ecumenical-letter-to-churches.html.
Christmas Sermon 2011. ‘The Word of Life, the Words of Payer.’ In Choose Life: Christmas and Easter Sermons in Canterbury Cathedral, 89–97 . London: Bloomsbury, 2013. See also: http://rowanwilliams.archbishopofcanterbury.org/articles.php/2292/archbishops-christmas-sermon-dont-build-lives-on-selfishness-and-fear.html
Christmas Sermon 2012. ‘Stopping and Seeing’. In Choose Life: Christmas and Easter Sermons in Canterbury Cathedral, 99–107. London: Bloomsbury, 2013. See also: http://rowanwilliams.archbishopofcanterbury.org/articles.php/2772/archbishops-christmas-sermon-join-the-human-race-this-christmas.html YouTube video, 16:45, Recorded at Canterbury Cathedral, 25 Dec 2012. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2HVWidaTdv4.
‘A Good Christmas with Rowan Williams.’ St Pauls Cathedral 9 Dec 2015. YouTube video, 1:24:11. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pc6rNoHFKxE.
Interview with Angela Wintle. ‘‘On “Living Over the Shop”, Meditation and How to Have a Joyful Christmas’. The Times, 23 Dec 2018.
Lent
Foreword for Archbishop’s Lent Book 2008, 6 Feb 2008. http://rowanwilliams.archbishopofcanterbury.org/articles.php/627/archbishop-of-canterburys-lent-book-2008.html.
Seasonal reflection for Lent, 25 Feb, 2009. YouTube video: 3:57, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1d0TG4hnNRs. [Transcript] http://rowanwilliams.archbishopofcanterbury.org/pages/lent-video.html.
The Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr Rowan Williams, has chosen ‘Why Go To Church?’ by Timothy Radcliffe, . . . Archbishop’s Lent Book 2009, 25 Feb 2009. http://rowanwilliams.archbishopofcanterbury.org/articles.php/601/archbishops-lent-book-2009.html.
The Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr Rowan Williams, has written a Lent letter addressed to the Primates . . . Archbishop’s Lent letter 2011, 12 Mar 2011. http://rowanwilliams.archbishopofcanterbury.org/articles.php/1202/archbishops-lent-letter-2011.html.
Holy Week
Seasonal reflection for Holy Week, 15 May 2008. YouTube video: 8:50, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v= https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WCP2NZtY9QI. [Transcript] http://rowanwilliams.archbishopofcanterbury.org/pages/holy-week-video.html.
Easter
Easter Sermon 2003, 20 Apr 2003, ‘Letting Go.’ In Choose Life: Christmas and Easter Sermons in Canterbury Cathedral, 111–19. London: Bloomsbury, 2013. See also: http://rowanwilliams.archbishopofcanterbury.org/articles.php/1626/the-archbishops-easter-sermon-2003.html
Meditations for Easter Morning 2004, 11 Apr 2004. See also: http://rowanwilliams.archbishopofcanterbury.org/articles.php/1646/meditations-for-easter-morning-2004.html
Easter Morning Broadcast 2004. ‘Into Daylight’. In Choose Life: Christmas and Easter Sermons in Canterbury Cathedral, 121–126. London: Bloomsbury, 2013.
Easter Sermon 2004. ‘Presente.’ In Choose Life: Christmas and Easter Sermons in Canterbury Cathedral, 127–34. London: Bloomsbury, 2013. See also: http://rowanwilliams.archbishopofcanterbury.org/articles.php/1647/easter-day-sermon-2004.html
An Easter Message to the Anglican Communion, 22 Mar 2005. http://rowanwilliams.archbishopofcanterbury.org/articles.php/646/an-easter-message-to-the-anglican-communion.html.
‘Easter, the Awkward Time of Year’. Daily Telegraph, 26 Mar 2005. See also: http://rowanwilliams.archbishopofcanterbury.org/articles.php/645/easter-the-awkward-time-of-year-article-for-the-daily-telegraph.html.
Easter Sermon, 27 Mar 2005. ‘The Denial of Death.’ In Choose Life: Christmas and Easter Sermons in Canterbury Cathedral, 135–42. London: Bloomsbury, 2013. See also: http://rowanwilliams.archbishopofcanterbury.org/articles.php/1616/archbishops-easter-day-sermon-2005.html
Easter Sermon 16 Apr 2006. ‘Conspiracy Theories Don’t Match Up to the Truth of the Gospel.’ In The Best Catholic Writing 2007. Edited by Jim Manney, 173–180. Chicago: Loyola Press, 2007. Also published as ‘Conspiracies and Transparency’. In Choose Life: Christmas and Easter Sermons in Canterbury Cathedral, 143–152. London: Bloomsbury, 2013. See also: http://rowanwilliams.archbishopofcanterbury.org/articles.php/1493/easter-day-sermon-2006-conspiracy-theories-dont-match-up-to-the-truth-of-the-gospel.html
Easter Sermon 8 Apr 2007. ‘Liberating Truth.’ In Choose Life: Christmas and Easter Sermons in Canterbury Cathedral, 153–60. London: Bloomsbury, 2013. See also: http://rowanwilliams.archbishopofcanterbury.org/articles.php/1430/easter-day-sermon-2007-human-failure-is-overcome-by-gods-love.html
Easter Day Sermon 2008. ‘Swallowed Up in Victory.’ In Choose Life: Christmas and Easter Sermons in Canterbury Cathedral, 161–69. London: Bloomsbury, 2013. See also: http://rowanwilliams.archbishopofcanterbury.org/articles.php/1303/archbishops-easter-day-sermon-2008-death-is-real-death-is-overcome.html
On Easter. The Mail on Sunday, 12 Apr 2009. See also: http://rowanwilliams.archbishopofcanterbury.org/articles.php/598/archbishop-on-easter-article-for-the-mail-on-sunday.html.
Seasonal reflection for Easter, 18 May, 2009. YouTube video: 3:38, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v= b0AZPQtW2Rw. [Transcript] http://rowanwilliams.archbishopofcanterbury.org/pages/east-video.html.
Easter Sermon, 12 Apr 2009 ‘The Hidden Seed of Glory’. In Choose Life: Christmas and Easter Sermons in Canterbury Cathedral, 171–79. London: Bloomsbury, 2013. See also: http://rowanwilliams.archbishopofcanterbury.org/articles.php/1071/archbishops-easter-sermon-2009-proof-of-the-resurrection-has-to-be-lived-not-argued.html
In his ecumenical Easter Letter to fellow church leaders, the Archbishop of Canterbury urges those living . . . Archbishop’s Easter letter – Christians need to “witness boldly and clearly”, 31 Mar 2010. http://rowanwilliams.archbishopofcanterbury.org/articles.php/982/archbishops-easter-letter-christians-need-to-witness-boldly-and-clearly.html.
In a special Easter edition of Start the Week recorded at Lambeth Palace, Andrew Marr discusses personal . . . Archbishop on BBC Radio 4: Start the Week, 5 Apr 2010. http://rowanwilliams.archbishopofcanterbury.org/articles.php/559/archbishop-on-bbc-radio-4-start-the-week.html.
Easter Sermon 2010. ‘Showing Signs of Life’. In Choose Life: Christmas and Easter Sermons in Canterbury Cathedral, 181–90. London: Bloomsbury, 2013. See also: http://rowanwilliams.archbishopofcanterbury.org/articles.php/844/the-archbishops-easter-sermon-2010-cross-is-a-challenge-to-the-world.html
Ecumenical Easter letter to the heads of other Churches and Christian world communions, the Archbishop . . . Archbishop’s Ecumenical Easter Letter 2011 – ‘The victory is won’, 20 Apr 2011. http://rowanwilliams.archbishopofcanterbury.org/articles.php/1741/archbishops-ecumenical-easter-letter-2011-the-victory-is-won.html.
Easter Sermon 2011. ‘Happiness Or Joy?’ In Choose Life: Christmas and Easter Sermons in Canterbury Cathedral, 191–99. London: Bloomsbury, 2013. See also: http://rowanwilliams.archbishopofcanterbury.org/articles.php/1926/archbishop-of-canterburys-2011-easter-sermon.html
Easter Sermon 8 April 2012. ‘But is it True?’ in Choose Life: Christmas and Easter Sermons in Canterbury Cathedral, 201–9. London: Bloomsbury, 2013. http://rowanwilliams.archbishopofcanterbury.org/articles.php/2440/archbishops-easter-sermon-2012-god-raised-jesus-to-life.html
Pentecost
Seasonal reflection for Pentecost, 25 Feb, 2009. YouTube video: 3:57, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bPMD-mq2tSE. [Transcript] http://rowanwilliams.archbishopofcanterbury.org/pages/penetcost-video.html.