Daily Report from the House of Bishops, March 11

The House of Bishops report of their Monday session includes a report from Bishops Working for a Just World with information from the Office of Governmental Relations, a report from the Title IV working group which deals with disciplinary matters and working for a safe church, a report of the steering committee dealing with seminaries and theological education, Healthcare coverage by Church Pension Group, and the Windsor study group.

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Sustaining unity in times of disagreement

The Kuala Lumpur Report demonstrates the underlying foundations upon which Anglican identity is built – attention to the Bible, the vocation towards holiness, respect for local cultures, the gifts of discernment and diversity, mutual accountability and the development of appropriate competencies to articulate the mind of the Church.

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Global South Anglicans at crossroad

… global South Anglicans are at a crossroad in 2008. Whither it goes should not be left to the primates. It is a matter of prime concern for all Anglicans in the Southern Hemisphere. Our homes are at stake; our Communion is at stake

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What are we waiting for?

I didn’t know Eve Carson, and yet when I read that she’d been killed with a handgun on a suburban street near the UNC Chapel Hill campus, I could hardly take my eyes off her photograph. Less than a year has passed since the Virginia Tech shootings, when 32 students were killed. Just last month, at Northern Illinois University, a gunman shot five people. And only one day earlier, Lauren Burke, an Auburn University freshman, died of a single gunshot wound.

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Somebody there

Most of all, we don’t want to be alone. We may long for some peace and quiet, assaulted as we are by the needs of other people all day. But we don’t want there to be no one for whom we matter. We want somebody to be there.

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Bishop Gene Robinson responds

Bishop Gene Robinson of New Hampshire responded to the Archbishop of Canterbury’s decision not to invite him to the Lambeth Conference today at the House of Bishops meeting: “One workshop on one afternoon and being interviewed by the secular press was not anything I was seeking. I wasn’t going to Lambeth to have another interview with the secular press.”

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Full invitation for Robinson “not possible”

The House of Bishops was informed March 10 that full invitation is “not possible” from the Archbishop of Canterbury to include Bishop Gene Robinson of New Hampshire as a participant in this summer’s Lambeth Conference of Anglican bishops. Robinson, addressing the House, urged the other bishops of the Episcopal Church to participate fully in the conference, and thanked all who are willing to “stay at the table.”

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