Anglican Mainstream (Free subscription) | 07/24/2008
By George Conger,CEN The Archbishop of Canterbury’s efforts to steer the Anglican Communion away from the theological and political shoals appears to have been for naught, as the 14th Lambeth Conference began to founder on its second business day. While the three day retreat led by Dr. Williams was universally applauded by bishops from across the geographic [...]
Anglican Mainstream (Free subscription) | 07/22/2008
By George Conger, Religious Intelligence Canterbury: The push to seat Gene Robinson at Lambeth Conference failed yesterday after the American bishops declined to force the issue. At their July 21 provincial meeting at the Lambeth Conference the American bishops declined to take action on a request by liberal members of their caucus to ask the Archbishop [...]
Anglican Mainstream (Free subscription) | 07/22/2008
By George Conger, Religious Intelligence Canterbury: The opening Eucharist service of the 2008 Lambeth Conference exemplified everything that is wrong with the Communion and the Conference, with substance given a second place to ceremony, one Global South primate told ReligiousIntelligence.com. While much was said about transforming the world through social action, nothing was said about...
Ben Byerly's Blog (Free subscription) | 07/21/2008
By George Conger in Canterbury. The crack-up of the Anglican Communion is at hand, evangelical bishops attending the Lambeth Conference in Canterbury tell Christianity Today, and the 400 year old Anglican project appears over. “I’d like to expect a miracle,” said Bishop Gregory Venables of Argentina, a leader of the evangelical alliance at Lambeth, but said he [...]
Anglican Mainstream (Free subscription) | 07/20/2008
George Conger, Christianity Today The crack-up of the Anglican Communion is at hand, evangelical bishops attending the Lambeth Conference in Canterbury tell Christianity Today, and the 400 year old Anglican project appears over. “I’d like to expect a miracle,” said Bishop Gregory Venables of Argentina, a leader of the evangelical alliance at Lambeth, but said he feared [...]
Anglican Mainstream (Free subscription) | 07/19/2008
By George Conger, CEN Presiding Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori has rebuffed pleas for compromise from conservatives and rejected calls for the American Church’s House of Bishops to revisit the cases of deposed Bishops John-David Schofield and William Cox, saying the matter is closed. “I have no ability to reverse or set aside any decision of the House [...]
