For the true Episcopal news junkie, video on demand from the recently completed meeting of the House of Bishops. Watch the final news conference, Presiding Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori’s message to the Church, a report on the bishops’ day of service and other news conferences.
And we are not surprised. He writes: While we await a meeting of all the Primates to receive and determine the adequacy of The Episcopal Church’s response it seems clear from first reading that what is offered is not a whole hearted embrace of traditional Christian teaching and in particular the teaching that is expressed in Lambeth Resolution 1.10. The unequivocal assurances that we sought have not been given…
Archbishop Phillip Aspinall, a member of the Primates’ Standing Committee, said the US church had “responded positively” to worldwide concerns it had been asked to address. “My initial reaction based both on my preliminary reading of the document and on my first-hand conversations with many of the bishops involved is that the house has responded positively.”
The formal response of the House of Bishops is now available, and it is the intention of the Joint Standing Committee to consult with one another in the preparation of a report to be submitted to the Archbishop of Canterbury by the end of the week offering an early response to the statement that the House of Bishops have developed.
The Right Reverend Thabo Cecil Makgoba (47) presently Bishop of Grahamstown has been elected as the next Archbishop of Cape Town. He was ordained in 1990 and has a masters degree in Applied and Educational Psychology from the University of the Witwatersrand. He is completing his doctoral studies at the University of Cape Town. He is currently on sabbatical and will be at Harvard University from the end of September 2007.
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by Betsy Porter
Stories have continued to flow in overnight. Here’s your early morning roundup of reports and comments filed since we last updated Part I of “House of Bishops: stories and reactions.” This post will be updated throughout the morning.
In spite of everything I believe and teach about shared power and shared authority, I find myself buying the press’s line that the power and decision-making in the Episcopal Church in the United States are centered in the House of Bishops, and find myself hoping that whatever they decide this weekend down in New Orleans will set everything right. And I am always proved wrong.