As if he did not already have his hands full with the (pending) schisms within the denomination he supposedly leads, the ‘Archbishop of Canterbury’ keeps finding opportunities to court controversy.

Dr Williams also said violence is incompatible with the beliefs of either faith and that, once that principle is accepted, both can work together against poverty and prejudice and to help the environment.

What are the consequences of Rowan Williams’s foray into the Islamic legal system?

The Archbishop of Canterbury said yesterday that the Christmas story of the Three Wise Men was nothing but a ‘legend’.

Philip Pullman, the best-selling author with a widely advertised contempt for organised religion, has found an unlikely champion in the Archbishop of Canterbury who has risked the wrath of fundamentalists by praising the National Theatre's adaptation of the author's His Dark Materials as a "near miraculous triumph".

Reuters, Feb. 27, 2003

The Telegraph (England), Dec. 11, 2002

Solemn, arcane and ceremonial, church confirms its liberal new archbishop

Cambridge News (England), Dec. 2, 2002

BBC, Aug. 6, 2002

icWales, Aug. 4, 2002

BBC, Aug. 5, 2002