Episode 1: The Most Reverend Rowan Williams - Preaching is a Catholic Job: To Bless, to Evoke and to Witness

What if preaching isn’t a performance, but a pilgrimage? In this episode of Preaching Well, Rowan Williams - poet, priest, theologian, and one of the most extraordinary Christian voices of our time - invites us into the landscape where sermons are born.

He speaks of childhood pulpits in Wales, the confidence of abundance, the ache of mystery, the courage of hope, and the quiet, stubborn joy of standing shoulder‑to‑shoulder with a congregation and whispering, “Will you look at that with me?”

Rowan guides us through Augustine and the Desert Fathers, the limits of language, the long work of healing, and the audacity of preaching in a fractured world.

He names the tensions, honours the questions, and returns—again and again—to the God who breaks us open the way bread is broken.

It’s tender. It’s wise. It’s full of light.