One Bishop’s reflections on Lambeth 1998
Featured article: In 1998, the then Bishop of North Sydney, Dr. Paul Barnett, attended the Lambeth Conference as part of the Sydney contingent. Human sexuality was the crucial issue.
Bishop Barnett spoke at the ACL’s Sydney Synod Dinner in October 1998 and gave his personal reflection on Lambeth. His perceptive talk is well worth re-reading in the light of all that has happened in the last ten years.
Spong said the fight for gay rights would go on and that Lambeth 2008 would be a different story…
– in the ‘old’ section of our website.
David Ould reports on the ACL’s AGM
Last night (17th July) the Anglican Church League (ACL) of Sydney held their AGM, which included a panel session with delegates from GAFCON. …
– David Ould summarises the panel discussion for readers of Stand Firm.
We’ll have more on the ACL’s 2008 Annual General Meeting in coming days.
More bishops than members?
Stand Firm has pointed us to this interesting graphic relating to the Church of England – from The Times.
Click on the image for the full size graphic as a PDF file.
Cavalcanti on ‘Anglicanism: The System in Crisis’
Bishop Robinson Cavalcanti, Bishop of the Diocese of Recife, now under Primatial Authority of the Province of the Southern Cone of America, writes on ‘Anglicanism: The System in Crisis’ —
What has become evident to the global media is the fact that the leadership of the Anglican Communion is unwilling to accept things as they really are, that the hegemonic Anglo-Saxon centre is unwilling to lose its hegemony, and that the only objective is the maintenance of the institution, whatever the cost…
The heavens declare the glory of God
On May 29th, as GAFCON was wrapping up, an unmanned NASA spacecraft captured images of the Earth and Moon from 50 million kilometres away.
The pictures, taken every 15 minutes over a 24 hour period, have been assembled into a short movie.
Watch here – and perhaps you could use the words of Psalm 19 to praise the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ.
First daily Lambeth update
This is the first of regular daily blogs which will come live from our support team at Lambeth. You will get to know us as the days go by.
… a bishop from Canada has said freely that once Lambeth is over the Canadian church will be moving forward apace with same-sex blessings etc. This gives substance to the observation that there is denial in what looks to be a potentially schizophrenic conference. Everyone knows that the North American lobbies are determined to have their agenda affirmed. However, all the processes of the conference in plenary addresses and small discussion groups mean that there is no place for the whole conference to hear itself think and address this elephant in the room. …
– Anglican Mainstream plans to keep us up to date on the unfolding (should that be unravelling?) Lambeth Conference.
Lambeth underway: please pray
Bishop Robert Forsyth has called for Sydney Anglicans to pray for the outcome of the Lambeth Conference, as it gets underway this weekend in England. …
– A timely exhortation from SydneyAnglicans.net (Photo: Russell Powell.)
Archbishop Akinola to stay till 2010
Bishops of the Church of Nigeria (Anglican Communion) on Sunday rejected a notice of voluntary retirement from Archbishop Peter Akinola as Primate of the Church. They requested him to complete his tenure, which ends in 2010.
The Dean of the Church, Archbishop Maxwell Anikwenwa, said in Abuja that the bishops prevailed on Akinola to rescind his decision to retire by January 2009. Read more