“It was confirmed that the Anglican Church of North America is not a Province of the Anglican Communion. … We discussed difficulties arising from cross-border interventions, agreeing that the principles were clearly stated from the Council of Nicaea onwards and in the 1998 Lambeth Conference.”
The Anglican News Service has gather a series of links to the Easter messages of various primates of Anglican provinces.
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.
The Primates’ first responses to the Archbishop of Canterbury’s invitation to meet next January “vary from the enthusiastic to the heavily caveated.” So far, no one has said “no.”
According to Okoh – or at least this is how we’re reading it – much of the blame for the ills of society is to be heaped upon women first, then homosexuals. But mostly women. So there’s that, then.
A few weeks ago, the primates of the Global South Anglican group released a statement from their meeting in China. We didn’t jump right on it for two reasons: the first is that there didn’t seem to be much news in it, but the second may be worth remarking on.
An Anglican Archbishop who also served as New Zealand’s first Maori Governor-General, has died. He was 78. Sir Paul Reeves was the Primate of New
Paul Bagshaw has written an essay on the state of the Anglican Communion after the most recent Primates Meeting, and his thoughts are similar to
Scottish Primate: It should not be a place where decisions are made for the Communion or for Provinces. It was clear that most of us come – as I do – from Provinces where decision-making is collegial and consultative within our autonomous provincial structure.
The Primates have agreed on the reasons they meet.