In the inaugural Ronald Blythe Lecture (available on The You Tube), Rowan Williams talks about the importance of reading, looking, seeing together, learning in conversation. We live in a place and we see what has already been looked at. Drawing on the work of Polish Nobel prize winner Olga Tokarczuk and others, he says that our society has lost a shared communal story and identity. We are surrounded by polyphonic first-person narratives, choirs of soloists. We prize the supposedly unique voice of individual experience over the shared and rooted, the communal, grounded, located fellowship of persons and world in time and space. We need to listen to the stranger and to the stranger within ourselves. The world asks to be loved and invites us in. Let us embrace the earth we stand on, look in the company of others, and share the particular which matters to us all and is universal. Only by doing so, might we rise above our own individual point of view.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9UqSJcSzlEI
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