After Lambeth, what now?

Posted on August 25, 2008 
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Archbishop Rowan WilliamsThe unfortunate truth of the Lambeth conference is that the only certain outcome has been a £1.2 million debt. As for the rest, opinions vary widely. …

The official figures have since revealed that The Episcopal Church sent the largest contingent of bishops, almost one quarter of the total. …

Rt Rev Michael Scott-Joynt, the Bishop of Winchester … said, “I cannot see that the members of an ‘international family of Churches’ can thrive and grow and offer a clear witness to Jesus Christ as Lord while offering contradictory teaching, on a matter as central as the character of the Holy Life, in different parts of a world knit together by instantaneous e-communications.”

– Russell Powell provides a helpful summary at SydneyAnglicans.net.

(Photo credit: Archbishop of Canterbury’s website.)