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‘Jordan Peterson is a sad and angry man’: an interview with Rowan Williams

Mary Wakefield Mary Wakefield
 John Broadley
EXPLORE THE ISSUE 19 April 2025
issue 19 April 2025

Rowan Williams, former Archbishop of Canterbury, has a new book out, a slim, thoughtful introduction to Christianity. But that’s not quite why I went to Cardiff to visit him. I went because, although I admire the superstar culture warriors of the right, there’s something Williams is witness to which they lack.

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