Her fellow Episcopalians have mixed feelings about Cook. There is anger over her crimes and a feeling that she was an embarrassment. She’s also forced the denomination to rethink its often cozy relationship with alcohol that caused some members to call themselves “Whiskeypalians.”
American Bishop Michael Curry, presiding bishop and primate of The Episcopal Church, is to receive the 2019 Sandford St Martin Trustees’ Award in recognition of the huge media impact generated by his royal wedding sermon which helped to bring a better understanding of religious belief and its modern relevance to a new audience.
In the continuing revelations of sexual abuse, the church’s privileging protection of it’s reputation before either caring for victims or seeing that perpetrators face justice is drawing challenges to long-held ideas about the sanctity of the confessional.
Ramadan at St Pauls, Secretary of State at Lambeth, and new bishops elected and consecrated; its our roundup of the news from the past week you may have missed.
Within the past couple of days, the Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse (IICSA) in the Church of England has issued a report about allegations
Following the news of the birth of a son to the Duke and Duchess of Sussex, at whose wedding he preached last year, Presiding Bishop Michael Curry tweeted: “The Jewish tradition reminds us that the birth of every child is a reminder that God is not finished with us yet. There is hope.”
As the Anglican Consultative Council meeting in Hong Kong ended, the Gafcon Primates Council issued a communique at the close of their rival gathering. In it they announced, “we have decided to call together a meeting of bishops of the Anglican Communion in June of 2020.”
The resolution was judged to have been accepted by general, verbal consent, but Oklahoma Bishop Konieczny, supported by more than one third of the members, asked for a counted vote, and it was found to have been defeated by 43 votes to 35, with 8 abstentions.
The weeklong effort by Oklahoma Bishop Ed Konieczny to have ACC speak on LGBTQ people ended in negotiated measure.
“The Anglican Consultative Council notes with concern the pattern of invitations to the Lambeth Conference 2020 and requests that the Archbishop of Canterbury as a focus of unity ensures that a listening process is put in place with supportive and independent facilitation in order to hear the concerns and voices of people especially those who have felt themselves marginalized with regard to sexuality.”
The ACC flexing some muscle, glass ceilings breaking and a crusty old dean; it’s our weekend roundup of stories from the past week you don’t want to miss.