Coming to a church meeting near you: Indaba funded from Atlanta, Georgia

Posted on May 7, 2009 
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ACC JamaicaChris Sugden in Jamaica reports on Day 5 of the Anglican Consultative Council’s meeting:

The Lambeth centre continues to impose its hegemony by introducing into all the central meetings of the Communion, Lambeth, the Primates’ Meeting in Egypt and the ACC meeting in Jamaica, the indaba process. This is designed to maintain matters as they are and avoid all discussion and decision about Anglican identity, membership and morality.  Worse, this process claims to use a deracinated process that those from the Global South are expected to acknowledge as a tribute to their cultural contribution.

– Via Anglican Mainstream.

See also this report on Day 5 by Robert Lundy, Communications Officer for The American Anglican Council:

On a day when the cloud of litigation surrounding The Episcopal Church grows darker, many couldn’t help but notice it even from the sunny shores of Jamaica. However this litigious church tempest seems to have escaped the sight of the 14th meeting of the Anglican Consultative Council and some of the Anglican Communion’s top officials.

Today, a pastor and his wife are being evicted from their home in Colorado Springs. At the same time, the individual members of the vestry of Saint James Newport Beach are being sued by the Diocese of Los Angeles for $500,000 a piece in legal fees for a total of $6 million being sought by the diocese.…

– at The American Anglican Council. (Photo: AAC.)