Christ Appears in Locked Rooms

a post-script homily

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On May 16th 2004, Rowan Williams, then the Archbishop of Canterbury, gave a sermon on the tenth anniversary of the ordination of women in the Church of England. He took as his text John 20:18, which reports that Mary Magdalene had been sent to the disciples with the news of Jesus’ resurrection, and he delivered the sermon entirely in her voice, constru…