{"id":16321,"date":"2016-05-26T22:42:01","date_gmt":"2016-05-26T21:42:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=16321"},"modified":"2016-05-26T22:42:01","modified_gmt":"2016-05-26T21:42:01","slug":"an-audience-with-an-archbishop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=16321","title":{"rendered":"An Audience with an Archbishop"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thankyou to St Helen and St Katharine for replying to my request about an event I sadly missed.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag16\/16052601.jpg\" alt=\"Dr Rowan Williams\" \/><br \/>\nOn Saturday evening, Dr Rowan Williams, Master of Magdalene College, Cambridge was the Guest of Honour at St Helen and St Katharine in Abingdon. The former Archbishop of Canterbury, took to the stage for an evening of poetry and conversation as part of the parish of Abingdon-on- Thames\u2019 series of events, \u2018The Hope Within Us\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018Rise Heart\u2019, the theme of the evening and a phrase taken from the poem \u2018Easter\u2019, George Herbert\u2019s poetic meditations on the resurrection of Christ, was an opportunity to hear Dr Williams\u2019 own poetic voice, literally and figuratively as he, together with Rebecca Dougall, Head of St Helen and St Katharine school and The Revd Dr Charles Miller, Team Rector of Abingdon, discussed how poetry is a powerful creative channel for exploring belief.<\/p>\n<p>Dr Williams also introduced the relatively unknown work (here in England) of Saunders Lewis, one of Wales&#8217; leading literary and political icons, a nationalist hero and one of the founders of Plaid Cymru.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thankyou to St Helen and St Katharine for replying to my request about an event I sadly missed. On Saturday evening, Dr Rowan Williams, Master of Magdalene College, Cambridge was the Guest of Honour at St Helen and St Katharine in Abingdon. The former Archbishop of Canterbury, took to the stage for an evening of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[150],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16321","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-spirituality"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16321","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16321"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16321\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16321"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16321"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16321"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}