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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April 1, 2007 Primates worship at former slave market

Primates of the Anglican Communion gathered on Feb. 18 for a eucharist at a cathedral built atop a former slave market in Zanzibar, with Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams praying for “forgiveness for the past, mercy for the present, and humility for the future.”

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April 1, 2007 Primates push U.S. on sexuality

Primates of the Anglican Communion have given the U.S. Episcopal Church until Sept. 30 to “make an unequivocal common covenant” that its bishops will bar same-sex blessings in their churches and that it would not consecrate another gay bishop “unless some new consensus on this matter emerges” across the Anglican world.

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March 1, 2007 ‘There isn’t one Anglican church,’ says U.S. academic

Nine months ago, the Episcopal Church met in convention in a mild-mannered city, Columbus, Ohio. What transpired was anything but mild-mannered and the emotional temperature since has steadily risen, both within a vocal minority of Episcopal churches in the United States and several countries of the global Anglican Communion.

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March 1, 2007 Official’s e-mail leaked

An e-mail criticizing the Archbishop of Canterbury proved to be an embarrassment in late January for the Secretary General of the Anglican Communion, Canon Kenneth Kearon. The Church Times reported that Mr. Kearon wrote to U.S....

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