Day: September 14, 2007

The bishops of the Church of Nigeria, in an open letter to the Archbishop of Canterbury posted on the Nigerian website, have asked for the Lambeth Conference to be canceled lest it cause scandal because of acrimony. They further call for an urgent meeting of all Primates to judge whether the Episcopal Church’s response is adequate and to quickly create an timetable for the formation of an Anglican Covenant which will in turn serve as a gate-keeper to the next Lambeth Conference.

Pat Ashworth, writing in the Church Times last week, points out how the repeated use of the language of crisis in the Anglican Communion is less than helpful. She uses the letter released under the name of Archbishop Akinola a few weeks ago and examines the way parts were edited and rewritten as a springboard for her argument that our language and rhetoric is not terribly helpful right now.

The Living Church has news that a number of American congregations formerly associated with Bishop Lyons of Bolivia are being transferred to the oversight of the Anglican Church of Nigeria.

Mwamba preached at the synod’s closing Eucharist. During the synod meeting, Harare Bishop Konunga asked that “Dissolution of the Province” be put on the synod’s agenda. Participants on the synod assumed that this item referred to an ongoing effort to create three new provinces from the dioceses of Zimbabwe, Malawi, and Zambia respectively, not the issue of homosexuality.