Lambeth 2008: A Conversation with Archbishop Venables
Kevin Kallsen of Anglican TV has posted online a 35 minute video interview with Archbishop Gregory Venables.
Archbishop Venables compares Lambeth with GAFCON and notes that Lambeth has totally ignored GAFCON – it’s as if it didn’t happen.
At Lambeth? “We haven’t talked about the gospel. We haven’t talked about salvation.” “The toothpaste has been squeezed out of the tube and we are not able to put it back again.”
Reports of Anglican demise exaggerated
There is an industry saying that people uncritically accept media reports, except in their area of expertise. Then the media gets it totally wrong. Although I have been a journalist for 30 years, my time in the GAFCON pressroom proved that old adage.
As well as being responsible for Archbishop Jensen’s media liaison, I was privileged to be a part of the GAFCON media team, a group made up of Anglican press officers from around the world: Uganda, Canada, Nigeria, the US and Kenya plus a Norwegian fellow traveller. …
– Russell Powell reflects on the media’s reporting of GAFCON at SydneyAnglicans.net.
(Russell interviews Bishop Al Stewart – with Tim Robinson filming – overlooking the Sea of Galilee . Photo: Zac Veron.)
Pittsburgh changes address – just in case
The Episcopal Diocese of Pittsburgh is in the process of moving its online home to www.pitanglican.org. The new address, based on Pittsburgh’s airport code, now is the primary host for the diocesan website and all diocesan staff email accounts.
“We are grateful for the use of our former address, pgh.anglican.org, which has been very kindly loaned to us by the Society of Archbishop Justus for more than a decade. That said, given the diocese’s coming vote on realignment and the decision of the Society earlier this year to take back the Anglican Diocese of San Joaquin’s address after it approved a similar vote, it seemed prudent to make this change now,” said the Rev. Peter Frank, director of communications for the Episcopal Diocese of Pittsburgh.…
– More at pitanglican.org. (See also “San Joaquin website disappears” from March 2008.)