Long (45-70 mins)
Doctrine
Anglican
Revd Dr Rowan Williams - Session 1
Theologian
Rowan Williams
Duration
49.02
Uploaded to YouTube
30 April 2018
Added to Database
20 August 2025
YouTube description
"Disciples in the Modern City: Maria Skobtsova - Race, Refugees & Martyrdom" Rowan tells the story of this amazing woman, who, scandalised her fellow nuns by drinking beer and smoking Gauloises - but in offering Jews in Paris the safety of Orthodox faith membership, she not only defied the Nazis, but resembled Christ most by treating the hungry and oppressed not with charity, but as she would Jesus himself. Sister Maria offers us a model of faithful discipleship that does not shy away from the possibility of martyrdom...
