May 22, 2007 Lambeth invitations exclude American gay bishop

The Archbishop of Canterbury, Rowan Williams, has invited all bishops in North America, except Gene Robinson, the openly gay bishop of New Hampshire, to the Lambeth Conference of the world’s Anglican bishops scheduled next year in the U.K.

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May 1, 2007 Williams will meet with U.S. bishops

Ending weeks of speculation and criticism, Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams said he will meet with bishops in the United States to discuss tensions in the worldwide Anglican church caused by differences over homosexuality.

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May 1, 2007 ‘Fragmentary reading’ of Bible ‘highly risky’

The Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams has lamented what he called the lack of “rootedness” in the Anglican approach to Scripture and said “we’ve lost quite a bit of what was once a rather good Anglican practice of reading the Bible in the tradition of interpretation.”

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April 17, 2007 Archbishop will not cancel Lambeth Conference

Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams considered cancelling the 2008 Lambeth Conference of the world’s Anglican bishops due to the sexuality debates roiling the church, but decided against it.

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April 17, 2007 Williams bemoans loss of listening to Scripture

The Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams has lamented what he called the lack of “rootedness” in the Anglican approach to Scripture and said “we’ve lost quite a bit of what was once a rather good Anglican practice of reading the Bible in the tradition of interpretation.”

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April 16, 2007 Williams will meet with U.S. bishops

Ending weeks of speculation and criticism, Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams said he will meet with bishops in the United States to discuss tensions in the worldwide Anglican church caused by differences over homosexuality.

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April 1, 2007 Anglican women pledge solidarity at UN meeting

A group of Anglican women have reiterated their commitment “to remaining always ‘in communion’ with and for one another” amid deep divisions over sexuality in the Anglican Communion.

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April 1, 2007 Union with Rome not imminent

An “organic unity” between Anglican and Roman Catholic churches is not likely to happen in the near future, according to the co-chairs of the International Anglican-Roman Catholic Commission for Unity and Mission (IARCCUM). But a recent commission report gave tangible suggestions for bringing the two churches closer.

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April 1, 2007 Conference tackles AIDS, poverty issues

Churches “are fundamental to the effective tackling of poverty,” Archbishop Njon-gonkulu Ndungane of Cape Town in March told an international conference focused on how Anglicans worldwide can address the issues of poverty, HIV/AIDS and education in developing countries.

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April 1, 2007 Can primates enforce edict?

Can the primates’ meeting, which was created in 1978 to provide leaders of Anglican provinces with an opportunity for “leisurely thought, prayer and deep consultation” enforce penalties and offer recommendations to individual and independent provinces that sound more like edicts?

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