
Rev. Paul Gibson went to England to the 1998 Lambeth Conference (the church's decennial meeting of bishops from around the world) as a member of its support staff and came back home nearly shaking with anger. "I was...
Category: November 2000, Canada, Lambeth 1998, Sexuality debate
Some of the frustrations from the 1998 Lambeth Conference of the world's Anglican bishops spilled over to a meeting of the Anglican Consultative Council in Scotland, as it spent a dozen days in mid September sorting through...
Category: November 1999, Anglican Communion, Lambeth 1998
Canterbury Bishops should respect the boundaries of dioceses and especially provinces (usually meaning national churches), most Anglican bishops agree. Archbishop Michael Peers opened debate on the motion which came from...
Category: October 1998, Lambeth 1998
Canterbury "We think we have problems in Canada - we don't have problems," said Bishop Charlie Arthurson with a wry smile. "Listening to (African) bishops and their problems of persecution and hunger" put life in Canada in...
Category: October 1998, Lambeth 1998
Ian Ritchie - religion professor and member of Essentials movement in Canada. What we've seen is a shift in the centre of Anglicanism to the African church. There are 80 million Anglicans worldwide and 65 million are in the...
Category: October 1998, Lambeth 1998
HAT HAPPENED at Lambeth? More to the point, what was the vote on sexuality all about? Why was it even on the agenda? And what does the result say about our church? General Synod this spring in Montreal signalled a shift to...
Category: September 1998, Opinion and Editorial, Lambeth 1998
The following is an edited version of a speech by Archbishop Njongonkulu Ndungane to a Lambeth plenary session, Aug. 5, 1998. Archbishop Ndungane chaired the section, Called to Full Humanity. He is Archbishop of Cape Town and ...
Category: September 1998, Opinion and Editorial, Lambeth 1998
In a session Archbishop of Canterbury George Carey called "difficult and painful," the Lambeth Conference approved a statement on sexuality on Aug. 5 that rejects homosexual practice as "incompatible with Scripture." The...
Category: September 1998, Lambeth 1998
Canterbury "There were no surprises at all." That succinct observation by Bishop Michael Ingham could probably cover most of the reaction of Canadian bishops on the outcome of the resolution on sexuality. 'On...
Category: September 1998, Lambeth 1998
A pastoral statement to lesbian and gay Anglicans from some member bishops of the Lambeth Conference
Dear sisters and brothers, The Lambeth Conference has spent nearly three weeks deliberating issues of human sexuality,...
Category: September 1998, Lambeth 1998