{"id":5698,"date":"2009-09-15T23:30:09","date_gmt":"2009-09-16T03:30:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/anglicansamizdat.wordpress.com\/?p=5698"},"modified":"2009-09-15T23:30:09","modified_gmt":"2009-09-16T03:30:09","slug":"rowan-williams-calls-for-repentance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/rowan-williams-calls-for-repentance\/","title":{"rendered":"Rowan Williams calls for repentance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>But not from The Episcopal Church or the Anglican Church of Canada. He\u2019s tackling something much easier: he wants the <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/uk_news\/8258136.stm\" target=\"_blank\">banks to repent<\/a>:<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/newsimg.bbc.co.uk\/media\/images\/46385000\/jpg\/_46385577_005116825-1.jpg\" alt=\"Add an Image\" width=\"226\" height=\"170\" \/><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The Archbishop of Canterbury has told the BBC he fears financiers feel no &#8220;repentance&#8221; for the excesses which led to the economic collapse.<\/p>\n<p>Dr Rowan Williams said the government should have acted to cap bonuses.<\/p>\n<p>He also warned that the gap between rich and poor would lead to an increasingly &#8220;dysfunctional&#8221; society.<\/p>\n<p>Dr Williams told BBC Two&#8217;s Newsnight programme: &#8220;There hasn&#8217;t been a feeling of closure about what happened last year.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There hasn&#8217;t been what I would, as a Christian, call repentance. We haven&#8217;t heard people saying &#8216;well actually, no, we got it wrong and the whole fundamental principle on which we worked was unreal, was empty&#8217;.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>He must be practising before he deals with his own organisation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>But not from The Episcopal Church or the Anglican Church of Canada. He\u2019s tackling something much easier: he wants the banks to repent: The Archbishop of Canterbury has told the BBC he fears financiers feel no &#8220;repentance&#8221; for the excesses &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/rowan-williams-calls-for-repentance\/\">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":[2241],"class_list":["post-5698","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-rowan-williams","tag-rowan-williams"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5698","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=5698"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5698\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5698"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5698"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5698"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}