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
Excerpts from a statement by Primate Michael Peers
Among this newspaper's readers are some who are confronting agonizing decisions about medical treatment for loved ones who are no longer capable of making decisions for...
Category: September 1998, Lambeth 1998, Archbishop Michael Peers, Opinion and Editorial
UNDITS HAVE ALREADY marked this as a watershed Lambeth Conference. "It's a new church," said one observer in the press gallery near the end of the conference, referring to the conservative shift evidenced in the vote on...
Category: September 1998, Opinion and Editorial, Lambeth 1998
HEN WE LOOK to the northwest sky the sun has dyed the ash-grey clouds a muted pink. They resemble a gigantic, suspended, amorphous bubblewrap just about to envelop the brown silhouette of mountains below. The water...
Category: September 1998, Opinion and Editorial
CONFERENCE sponsored by a group calling itself the Centre for Progressive Christianity? As a citizen of a country where even conservatives call themselves progressives and we know where that got them, this did not seem an...
Category: September 1998, Opinion and Editorial
AYBE I'M JUST a grumpy, anti-social, middle-aged crank. Maybe my sympathies are easily skewered. Maybe that's the easiest explanation for why I spent a long weekend locked in a cell in Canada's oldest federal...
Category: September 1998, Opinion and Editorial
WO HUNDRED YEARS after her birth, a seminal figure in the development of science - and an Anglican in her later years - is finally receiving her due. Born on May 21, 1799, in Lyme Regis, England, Mary Anning made three...
Category: September 1998, Opinion and Editorial
EOPLE YEARNING to express the spiritual side of their nature at work were invited "out of the closet" at a recent workplace conference. "Many of us have been preparing for a lifetime for this conference," said Michael...
Category: September 1998, Opinion and Editorial
Canterbury In 1978, it was women's ordination to the priesthood, in 1988, women bishops, in 1998, it was homosexuality. But unlike previous Lambeth Conferences that have weathered the threat of a massive divide in the...
Category: September 1998, Opinion and Editorial, Lambeth 1998