Louie Crew, one of the founders of Integrity, and Brian Cox, one of the founders of the American Anglican Council, have issued a joint letter asking for donations to fund the listening process that was called for by the Lambeth Conference in 1998.
The BBC is reporting the Archbishop of Canterbury’s critique of humanitarian and security situation in Iraq. His words are in response to his trip to Syria where he had the opportunity to meet with a number of Iraqi refugees and to hear their stories and first-hand reports of life in that country.
Canterbury Press, an English publisher, has bought the memoir of Bishop Gene Robinson from US Episcopal publisher Morehouse. The book, In the Eye of the Storm, will be published in April 2008 and recounts Bishop Robinson’s faith journey and shares his reflections on the current church situation.
Jonathan Petre writes of his predictions about what the Anglican Communion might be facing in the next couple of years. He is hearing of plans
The Primate of Uganda, Henry Orombi, has spoken out on the reasons that he chose not to attend the Joint Standing Committee’s meeting with the
The Archbishop of Wales, a member of the Joint Standing Committee whose membership recently met with the Episcopal Church’s House of Bishops, shares his thoughts about what happened in New Orleans and of the findings of the JSC in their report.
News came this week that the ban on religious books (other than primary texts like the Bible, the Torah, or the Koran, etc…) in US Prisons has been reconsidered.
“The Anglican Church’s highest court has cleared the way for women bishops – but the Archbishop of Sydney, Peter Jensen, will carry on the fight against them. The Appellate Tribunal, by a 4-3 majority, found there is no constitutional barrier to women becoming bishops in the Australian church. The decision could lead one day to a woman leading the Australian church.”
The meeting in Pittsburgh of a group of bishops which follows hard on the heels of the House of Bishops’ meeting in New Orleans has issued a statement and a report of some of the principles they have adopted.
The Episcopal News Service has report of the words of the Archbishop of the Province of Mexico, who is taking part in a meeting at Manchester Cathedral beginning tomorrow. The Archbishop reports in particular of his take on the atmosphere at the most recent Primates meeting earlier this year.