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" Incidentally, one of the most worrying problems in the impact of Western modernity on traditional culture is that it quite rapidly communicates its own indifference or anxiety or even hostility about age and ageing. "

Rowan Williams

Age

Anxiety

Culture

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Rowan Williams

God

Community

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