{"id":15970,"date":"2012-03-18T20:45:26","date_gmt":"2012-03-19T00:45:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/?p=15970"},"modified":"2012-03-18T20:45:26","modified_gmt":"2012-03-19T00:45:26","slug":"rowan-williams-admits-he-is-not-always-very-good-with-words","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/rowan-williams-admits-he-is-not-always-very-good-with-words\/","title":{"rendered":"Rowan Williams admits he is \u201cnot always very good with words\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Who knew?<\/p>\n<p>To reinforce the point, he went on to note that when he met Richard Dawkins in the recent debate at the Sheldonian, it was \u201cthe same sort of experience <em>[as]\u00a0<\/em>last October when I went to meet President Mugabe.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m sure Robert Mugabe will be cut to the quick by this comparison.<\/p>\n<p>From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/religion\/9151552\/Rowan-Williams-debating-with-Richard-Dawkins-was-like-meeting-Robert-Mugabe.html\">here<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Dr Rowan Williams said that he struggled with nerves before squaring up to the man nicknamed the \u201chigh priest of atheism\u201d over the existence of God and asked friends and supporters to pray for him during the encounter.<\/p>\n<p>He added that, despite having a grasp of 11 languages, been an Oxford professor and the leader of 77 million Anglicans worldwide, he was \u201cnot always very good with words\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking during a visit to Springfield Church in Wallington Surrey on Sunday he was asked about his recent debate at Oxford University with Prof Dawkins about the origins of life which captured attention around the world.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI was quite nervous about hat really because I never feel I\u2019m at my best in debates, you have to be quick on your feet and clever and slick and I always feel anxious about that.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI want to think about what I say and I\u2019m not always very good with words.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He added: \u201cI had the same sort of experience last October when I went to meet President Mugabe.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Who knew? To reinforce the point, he went on to note that when he met Richard Dawkins in the recent debate at the Sheldonian, it was \u201cthe same sort of experience [as]\u00a0last October when I went to meet President Mugabe.\u201d &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/rowan-williams-admits-he-is-not-always-very-good-with-words\/\">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":1,"footnotes":""},"categories":[277],"tags":[2238,1365,2241],"class_list":["post-15970","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-rowan-williams","tag-richard-dawkins","tag-robert-mugabe","tag-rowan-williams"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15970","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=15970"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15970\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15970"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15970"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15970"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}