For Its Own Sake

The New Statesman interviews Rowan Williams:

If religion is pushed into private spaces, as increasingly it tends tobe by our public discourse, we lose one of the most emotionally andimaginatively resourceful ways of seeing human behaviour; we losesomething of the sense that certain acts may be good independently ofwhether they are sensible or successful in the world's terms. I supposeyou could say that we lose the "contemplative" dimension to ethics, thebelief that some things are worth...