Lambeth: David’s Diary Day 7
The Anglican Communion is hanging by a thread. We are into the 7th day of Lambeth, but only the 4th day in terms of real Indaba talk. Already there are signs of fragmentation everywhere one turns.
Gene Robinson is roaming the campus with a body guard and press officer, the darling of the liberal media, offering his thoughts on exclusion and his personal pain at not being admitted to the Lambeth conference. …
A real dust up occurred at a press conference, yesterday, when Archbishop Phillip Aspinall, the bishop’s press officer was challenged about why a list of all the bishops could not be handed out to the press. …
– David Virtue reports at VirtueOnline.
Thursday: Buckingham Palace
Today is the London Day for the Lambeth Conference. The bishops and their wives are leaving the campus at 7 a.m. after a week on site to march along Whitehall in support of the Millennium Development Goals, to have lunch at Lambeth Palace and tea at Buckingham Palace. …
The March of Witness will be attended by the Anglican Mainstream team, largely on the grounds that there has been very little opportunity to meet with bishops at all. No one knows where any of the bishops are living, not even the bishops. There is no access to any of the meetings, except the occasional plenary. So we will not be at tea at the Palace, unlike 1988 when the press were invited. How times have changed. …
– Today’s report from Anglican Mainstream.
A visit to Hillsong
Over at The Sola Panel, Gavin Perkins describes a recent visit to Hillsong (the church, not the music label).
At the end of the night, following the calls from the mosh pit for encores and some good old early-90s-style crowd surfing (I’m serious), one of the song leaders declared that “This was the best weekend we’ve ever had at Hillsong”.
So, how good was it? Read Gavin’s notes at the Sola Panel.
(It’s also worth noting that Joel and Victoria Osteen will be speaking at the 2009 Hillsong Conference. See this broadcast from The White Horse Inn.)
Photo: Brian Houston at Hillsong.
What we believe
The message at the heart of Christianity is really quite simple…