According to a spokesperson for the Anglican Consultative Council, Bishop Cavalcanti of Recife is not to be invited to Lambeth. This is in addition to Bishop Kunonga from Harare whom Canon Kearson, the Secretary General of the ACC mentioned yesterday as not having been invited yet.
Marc Andrus, the Bishop of California has posted his thoughts of the spiritual dangers confronting the Communion by deciding not to extend a full invitation to Bishop Robinson.
The Bishop and General Convention deputies of the Diocese of New York posted their separate responses to the draft covenant yesterday. The posts didn’t get much notice in the rush of Lambeth invitation news. But those attending Lambeth, whoever they all turn out to be, will most likely have a great deal of their time spent discussing the content of the Covenant that will ultimately have to be adopted by the individual provinces of the Communion.
Not much new to report this morning about the announcement yesterday that the Archbishop of Canterbury has issued the invitations for the 2008 Lambeth Conference. But the working press have started to issue their stories reporting on the news and each version has a slightly different emphasis.
Stuff happens. Accidents. Mental illness. Death. Throughout human history, people have asked “Why?” To ask “why” is to presume that stuff happens for a reason, that behind events lie causes we can discover. It’s a question from a privileged perspective. It suggests human omniscience
Recently when a nun in her mid-nineties sent me a note on my birthday, she quoted a line of Hegel: “The owl of wisdom flies in twilight,” and then said, “I like to think that as we get older we live in two twilights; the evening twilight of letting-go and the dawn of looking forward. In both, Christ is our Light.”