And the streets filled with choking dust
https://archives.anglican.ca/link/article28664
- Author
- Williams, Rowan D. (Rowan Douglas), 1950-
- Material Type
- Journal Article
- Journal
- Anglican World
- Date
- 2001 Michaelmas
- Material Type
- Journal Article
- Journal
- Anglican World
- Date
- 2001 Michaelmas
- Issue
- 103
- Page
- 5
- Notes
- A comment by the Most Rev. Rowan Williams, Primate of Wales, who was in New York, at Trinity Church Wall Street, when the World Trade Center was destroyed. Like many others, Archbishop Williams thought he was going to die. "This moment of terror and extreme vulnerability brought us closer to others -- we'd have a language in common, even though our experience was less and our danger short-lived. ... We've been `spoken to' in the language of terror and hate; if we reply in the same terms, we say `All right, that's how we are going to go on, that's what we treat as normal'. We have a choice which language we speak, how the conversation goes on." "God chooses to speak a common language with us by sharing the experience of terror and death. And when we speak to God the language of hatred and rejection, nails and spears, nail-bombs and airstrikes, terror attacks and the bleeding bodies of children, in Ireland, Baghdad, Jerusalem or New York, God refuses to answer in that language. He can only speak his own Word which, in the incarnation, is a word shared with us."
- Subjects
- World Trade Center (New York, N.Y.) Terrorist Attack, 2001
- Terrorism - Religious aspects - Church in Wales
- Violence - Religious aspects - Anglican Communion
- Violence - Religious aspects - Church in Wales
- Nonviolence - Religious aspects - Anglican Communion
- Nonviolence - Religious aspects - Church in Wales
- Location
- General Synod Archives