Tag: Anglican Communion

“When something which happens in one province is instantly around the world, you have to go for a more coherent structure.”

– Rowan Williams

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?

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.

The next installment in the Sunday Telegraph’s list of the 50 most influential Anglicans (31-40) is online. Who do you think should make the list?

There is something to this argument, but in what sense are parishes who put themselves under a foreign bishop seeking to escape any episcopal oversight while remaining nominally Anglican; and when African archbishops spout 19th century theology in speeches written for them by American conservatives, is that an example of globalization enabled or globalization coopted?

New Vision Online has the story: Archbishop Henry Luke Orombi yesterday said he fears for his life because of the campaign he has waged against

With the Lambeth Conference beginning next week, The Sunday Telegraph has compiled the Lambeth Power List, a countdown of the most influential figures in the worldwide Church.

– The Sunday Telegraph

The Most Rev. Phillip Aspinall, Primate of the Australian Anglican Church, has warned the Archbishop of Sydney, Dr. Peter Jensen, that he risks a legal