What is the Lambeth Conference? It is a once-a-decade gathering of bishops from the worldwide Anglican Communion. Every 10 years, bishops come together, at the invitation of the Archbishop of Canterbury, for a time of prayer, Bible study, fellowship and collegiality. Much of our ministry in the church involves work that we share as
bishops, even though we live and work in very different circumstances. It is important to note, however, that the conference is not primarily a legislative body. Each province in the Anglican Communion (the Episcopal Church is one example) has its own canons and sets of rules that govern its common life.
Read it all (pages 1 and 4).
HOW REALLY INTERESTING THAT NOTHING THAT HAPPENED AT THE ALBANY DIOCESAN CONVENTION THIS WEEKEND MERITS ANY MENTION ON THIS BLOG. GOING INTO THE VOTING, WE WEREN’T ENTIRELY SURE WHERE WOULD BE. AND HERE WE ARE.
HO HUM??
Bishop von Rosenberg, take the blinders from your eyes! Wake up and smell the bacon! Your Church is coming apart at the seams……and you can’t stop it. You can’t stop it because your fellow bishops won’t let you stop it. Your “Presiding Bishop” is a disgrace and embarrassment to Christianity, and yet you stand calmly by and let her continue to tear apart a once-great and highly-respected Church.
Lumen, what happened in Albany? And is your Caps Lock broken?
#1, Lumen, We sent Kendall the links to the Albany votes on the marriage resolutions. It was great and exciting news. Well done. [url=http://transfigurations.blogspot.com/2008/06/albany-diocese-new-canons-reaffirm.html]link is here[/url]
I trust Kendall will post them in time. We elves no longer do much posting at all, preferring to leave the content of the blog to Kendall. It is not Kendall’s desire as we understand it these days to try and be a “breaking news blog” or worry about having the latest stories. He posts the stories and articles he believes are important, but sometimes they may be a bit delayed depending on the other news and stories that have caught his interest. I’m confident the story from Albany will be posted here.
In the future, please direct such requests to Kendall or us elves. Please don’t post requests re: what Kendall should post on other stories. Thanks. –elfgirl
Lumen Christie, what Albany does just isn’t newsworthy any more. The fat lady has sung, the Goodyear blimp has floated off to cover another event; even if Albany threw three perfect strikes between now and General Convention, the match was lost before going into the tenth frame. Put your ball in your bag and go home. Whatever analogy you want to use it all comes down to this: it’s over, the inside strategy failed. As much as I wish it were not so, it is.
[blockquote] Archbishop Williams has been very
clear that he does not want this time
to be focused either on legislation or on
controversial issues that divide us. I
think he is trying very intentionally to
lower expectations that this will be a legislative
body, and raise expectations that
it will be consultative and prayerful. I
certainly agree with that, in part because
of our autonomous reality as separate
provinces within the Communion.[/blockquote]
Says it all doesn’t it. Another meeting in which no decision need be made. Another meeting to stall. Another time to tell the orthodox to be patient and wait. All the time those assaulting the church will continue advancing their cause.
RS Bunker
#5: Sorry but there are many of us who are staying and the “game” is not over. I wish you well in your new arena but please do not be so dismissive to those of us that stay.
Very interesting. “What went ye out for to see?” indeed!
…and meanwhile the Virginia cases will turn into more and more of a lesson for those who dither and sit and navel-gaze. Judge Bellows isn’t buying the PR baloney of 815 and THE Diocese (of Virginia). The Virginia Attorney General has ripped 815 and THE Diocese a new one. They’re going to sink by the bow within two years. No matter the outcome of the case, this Church has lost its lifeblood in losing supporters like those hundreds in Virginia. When THIS hits the media then these pointless bishops will start singing a new tune.
Til then it will be “me no a speaka division…”
Like it or not, Eugene, the Diocese of Albany’s majority are on the way out! Their exit is inevitable……and there will be more!
This whole article by the Bishop shows just how weak Rowan Williams has become. He will not even stand up to an imposter in the form of KJS. That women is no bishop. She is a power hungry, educated idiot that has no common sense, no integrity (not the organization) and no hope of salvation at the rate she is going. She has denigrated the Episcopal Church into an obscene caricature of it’s former self while showing her feminazi intentions as she destroys the church, the communion, and the careers of many good prists and bishops. She has no Christian traits to show the world. Her career in the church should be all that is needed to show that the ordination of women is a debacle of the first magnitude. You can not take God’s word and twist it to fit your sedcular humanist, “rights” driven agenda. God doesn’t take to kindly to people that declare that they are now in charge as Schori has done.
The primates need to stand up to her and form a new communion of Christian Anglican Churches. All you bishops sitting around talking about fellowship and no legislation can go join her, wherever it is she is going. Rowan Williams has co-opted himself into irrelavenci by his own actions. Schori is the one calling the shots and it is time to send her packing and reclaim the Church that God planted in the US.
Just say NO to W.O.!!
[blockquote] Each province in the Anglican Communion (the Episcopal Church is one example) has its own canons and sets of rules that govern its common life. [/blockquote]
There it is. The AC is nothing more than window dressing for these people. The concept of interdependence and shared belief is meaningless to these people.
From Irenaeus’ Guide to Pastoral Letters:
Revisionist and institutionalist bishops are most likely to write vapid, complacent letters—except when complaining about the orthodox.
LET ’em complain……..for all the good it’ll do ’em!
Sigh. Same old, same old. He’ll ‘somehow’ participate in the Lambeth tea party. (Wonder if he and his family will have a lovely vacation in the UK before or after Lambeth….partly paid for by his long-suffering diocese!) This whole Lambeth party seems too much like a corporate junket for members of the US Congress for my liking!