The Archbishop of Canterbury today addressed General Synod, reporting on his travels in the last 18 months to visit with every primate (senior bishop) of the Anglican Communion. It is a good address and he highlights several central issues to the future of the Communion: the opportunity and threat of instantaneous communication, the suffering of […]
96 days of travel, 14 trips, and 11 days in airplanes Read More »
Six primates of the Anglican Communion and a handful of other bishops recently met in New York City for several days and, at the end of their gathering, expressed their “fervent and urgent hope that another Anglican Congress might be held in the next two years.” (The full statement is here.) To which I say:
Lambeth Conference? How about a Lambeth Congress instead? Read More »
On Wednesday, the archbishops of Canterbury and York wrote a letter in which they “recalled the common mind” of the Primates of the Anglican Communion to say that it wasn’t right to support anti-gay legislation in places like Nigeria and Uganda. It’s hard to argue with the message, but it is interesting how they chose
Well, that was fast… or, how Anglican communiques become cudgels Read More »
