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A round up of Primates meeting news and reaction

January 22, 2016 12 Comments

Here is a round up of news reports from The Church Times and elsewhere about the Primates meeting last week.

From our friends to the north

January 19, 2016 19 Comments

It was not open to him, argued Dr Hiltz, to offer to suffer the same consequences alongside his brother bishop, since this would preempt the decisions of the Anglican Church of Canada’s own General Synod this July.

From our friends in the South

January 19, 2016 26 Comments

UPDATED: How global is the Global South when it comes to the Anglican Communion?

Repercussions for Church of England after Primates vote?

January 18, 2016 25 Comments

A noted theater director petitions the United Kingdom to remove Church of England Bishops from the House of Lords to comply with anti-discrimination laws; Jonathan Merritt chastises the Anglican Communion for focusing on human sexuality while remaining mum on the less controversial sin of supporting oppressive governments efforts to criminalize LGBTQ people, and Primate Philip Richardson shares his experience from the Primates’ meeting.

What are the limits of Primatial power?

January 17, 2016 37 Comments

Or are the Primates here taking it upon themselves to speak for the whole Anglican Communion – that by “us” here they mean “Anglicanism”? If so, when and where, exactly, do they think they have received this mandate? Is a convenient crypto-papal ecclesiology at work here?

Editorial: Response to the #Primates2016 Statement

January 15, 2016 94 Comments

But really, shouldn’t this be expected? Our work for equality and full inclusion, on a communion-wide scale, is a kind of civil disobedience, and civil disobedience is often met with oppression and further injustice. But that doesn’t mean that we should disengage with the Anglican Communion because a couple of dozen men have sought to censure us.

Vikings, Muslims, and Anglicans: Justin Welby addresses first day of Primates’ gathering

January 12, 2016 54 Comments

According to Christian Today, the speech was supposed to be a private address to the gathered Primates, and it is not published on the official

Archbishop Welby: schism would be a failure, not a disaster

January 11, 2016 43 Comments

A schism would be a failure, but not a disaster, says Archbishop Welby.

One Commenter answers why the Communion might be important

January 7, 2016 10 Comments

Well, dear friends, it is important because in spite of all the hard feelings and anathemas being hurled at various churches, in spite of colonial history, there are residual feelings of real companionship in the Gospel and real hopes for engagement in common mission.

Ugandan Primate demands “godly order” be restored to Communion

January 7, 2016 56 Comments

Ugandan Archbishop’s pastoral letter suggests readiness to break with communion over role of TEC

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