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.
Benedictine harmony and balance and awareness call us all to life drunk deeply. And, interestingly enough, there has probably never been a better moment in history to do that. We have information that has never been known before.
The world, both rich and poor countries, is clearly facing multiple crises. Unfortunately it is poor people who suffer the most, suffering immensely from food price increases. We expected this year’s G-8 summit to reflect the gravity and urgency of the situation; but rather we got more and more talk and zero practical, measurable and tangible commitments with set timelines.
The Telegraph’s recent interview with Presiding Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori is a classic example of an ideologically-motivated newspaper writing conflict-mongering headlines that the text of the story cannot support.
If what is happening in the Province of Central Africa–where people are being denied the bishops that they want and having other candidates forced upon–were happening in the Episcopal Church, how many emergency meetings of the Primates would have been convened? How many border crossings justified? How many stories about imminent schism written?
Like Mr Rochester’s first wife, the misogyny and homophobia of the Church of England’s factions keep leaping out of the attic to scare off decent folk, writes Stephen Bates. Desperate in its search for relevance, the Established Church could not have chosen two issues more likely to make it appear institutionally decrepit among those it wishes to proselytise than its perceived discrimination against women and gay people.
The immediate future of General Seminary is not imperiled. Decisive action, however, is not simply called for but demanded. At our May board meeting, the trustees of GTS committed to a three-year plan to address the challenges the Seminary now faces.
– Dean Ward B. Ewing
The simple reality is that the majority of African Anglicans, about 37 million of them, are frankly not bothered with the debate on sexuality. A bishop from the Democratic Republic of the Congo, told me that the people in his diocese were not in the least interested in the issue. This is just the tip of the iceberg because in my own Province the debate on sexuality is also not an issue.