The Archive
Author: Jim Naughton
AP interviews Presiding Bishop
”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.”
Son of Kitson and John
The Rev Scott Fisher, Fairbanks Alaska
Text by C. Robin Janning
Orombi clarifies, digs deeper
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.”
Williams speaks on Communion structure
“When something which happens in one province is instantly around the world, you have to go for a more coherent structure.”
– Rowan Williams
The Covenant is dead, and so is the Communion
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.
Harmony and balance
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.
Ndungane says G-8 is hat sans cattle
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.
T’graph creates controversy where none exists
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 Central Africa were in America…
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?