{"id":10282,"date":"2010-10-19T17:46:34","date_gmt":"2010-10-19T21:46:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/?p=10282"},"modified":"2010-10-19T17:46:34","modified_gmt":"2010-10-19T21:46:34","slug":"incomprehensible-thought-for-the-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/incomprehensible-thought-for-the-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Incomprehensible thought for the day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The BBC used to have a program on the radio called Thought for the Day. Here\u2019s my version; and who better to start things off with a bang than Rowan Williams: <em>dialogue is recognition of the serious<\/em>. As he ruminates on how to deal with other faiths, don\u2019t let the rumour of Rowan\u2019s erudition deceive you into thinking <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/opinion\/interview\/article838477.ece\" target=\"_blank\">what he says<\/a> means anything:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>For me it involves above all the willingness to build relationships  through common study and sometimes through common silence. We can&#8217;t pray  publicly together, for many reasons. Prayer follows conviction. But we  can sometimes keep silence together. We can certainly look together at  the sacred texts of one or another tradition. We can watch how other  people handle their sacred texts and their rituals and learn from that.  And in that process we become able to recognise some kind of integrity  and some kind of depth in one another. It doesn&#8217;t mean I say, \u2018Oh well,  you must be right.&#8217; But I can at least say, \u2018I know you&#8217;re serious.&#8217; And  that&#8217;s dialogue for me \u2013 the recognition of the serious. And therefore  if we find we can do things together after all in servicing, witnessing,  peace-making, then it will come out of depths, not shallows.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The BBC used to have a program on the radio called Thought for the Day. Here\u2019s my version; and who better to start things off with a bang than Rowan Williams: dialogue is recognition of the serious. As he ruminates &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/incomprehensible-thought-for-the-day\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[277],"tags":[2241,1537],"class_list":["post-10282","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-rowan-williams","tag-rowan-williams","tag-thought-for-the-day"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10282","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10282"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10282\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10282"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10282"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10282"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}