The Times Lambeth Round-up
The Times has a very interesting round-up of thoughts by Bishops and about their “hopes and fears for the future of the Anglican Communion.
The Times has a very interesting round-up of thoughts by Bishops and about their “hopes and fears for the future of the Anglican Communion.
“I think it’s a very insulting thing to the American church that a duly elected bishop is told he’s not allowed to come,” said Smith, who will be attending his first Lambeth Conference.
The bishop of New Hampshire, said it was time for the church to decide what it was going to stand for to its gay members – whether it would be somewhere they would feel welcome or rejected. He called on the Archbishop of Canterbury to show leadership on the issue, rather than just try to manage it.
The third installment in The Sunday Telegraph’s list of the 50 most influential Anglicans is online. In order of ascending influence, 30-21, they are: Michael
”We’re far more diverse than we’re presented in some quarters,” she said in a recent interview with The Associated Press at Episcopal headquarters in New York. ”We have people all over the theological spectrum and liturgical spectrum.”
The Rev Scott Fisher, Fairbanks Alaska
Text by C. Robin Janning
It seems the hair the Primate of Uganda seeks to split is that he does not fear that homosexuals are out to kill him specifically. Rather, “They can harm anybody who is against them. Some of them are killers. They want to close the mouth of anybody who is against them.”
“When something which happens in one province is instantly around the world, you have to go for a more coherent structure.”
– Rowan Williams
The Anglican Communion is not a Church. This is where Archbishop Rowan Williams keeps making his mistake, why he talks about dioceses and then his primacy, and forgets that, like it or not, the local Churches organise the dioceses and have their own primacy. His method is to bind the bishops and his office via a Covenant to strengthen the Instruments of Communion: however, again and again, actual Churches have rejected its narrow focus and more disciplinarian features.