Month: August 2008

Update with reactions The penultimate draft of the Reflections paper from the Lambeth Conference is now available on the conference web site. Section K on

“I think what we’re running into is a kind of difficult rubbing between the indaba process which has been in large measure very conversational, very relational” and the work of the WCG, which is “seeking to find structures and procedures whereby we can remain in communion with one another,” said Archbishop Hiltz. “How the two can interface for the well-being is a huge challenge at this moment.”

The bishops keep asking Western churches to sacrifice their desire to include GLBT people more fully in the Church. Who exactly do the bishops think is authorize to negotiate this sacrifice on behalf of gay and lesbian Christians? The primarily male, exclusively heterosexual delegations from the Episcopal Church and the Anglican Church of Canada?

The hearings and indaba conversations have become more contentious in recent days, as some of the bishops push for a reaffirmation of Lambeth 1. 10. Conference organizers say it is highly unlikely that Rowan Williams, the Archbishop of Canterbury, will alter the conference agenda to permit any sort of vote, so those who want to produce such a statement may have to draft it and then seek signatures.

Yesterday was the first really uncomfortable day in the Indaba groups for the bishops as their conversations turned to matters of human sexuality and the