Click here; starting at about 9:35 there is a segment on the Lambeth spouses conference (about 4 minutes) which concludes with an interview with Dr. Jane Williams (just a little over 4 minutes, who delightfully responds at the end to queries about her husband, Dr. Rowan Williams). Then starting about 27:45 there are three segments, the first by Trevor Barnes on the consideration of global warming which includes comments from the Archbishop of Burundi, Bernard Ntahoturi, the second a conversation with Archbishop Gregory Venables of the Southern Cone, and the third with the Rev. Dr. Ian Douglas of Episcopal Divinity School in Massachusetts, a member of the Lambeth Design Group (a total of about 14 minutes for the three consecutive segments).
Several BBC Radio Four Sunday Programme Segments on the 2008 Lambeth Conference
Posted in * Anglican - Episcopal, Lambeth 2008
Douglas just gave more of the “tripe” that he gave with KJS when they did the pre-conference for the press in New York. It’s all about “conversation” and “face-to-face” which in his context sounds very shallow and empty. It just doesn’t work for me.
Venables was a lot more direct, but I would have like to have seen more clarity on what he personally expects. At one point he was asked what “conservative” bishops were present at the conference and I got the impression that something was cut out of his answer there, unless my player blipped. The flow of conversation between the interviewer and Venables just changed suddenly, and so did the topic.
Jane Williams was clearly using avoidance tactics to not answer questions directed to her about her husband. It was quite obvious. The rest of what she said about the spouses conference was just shallow.
That’s my take anyway!
My sincerest apologies for not including the link earlier, and thanks to Simon Sarmiento and mugsie for bailing me out. It is now fixed in the main blog entry.
In the same broadcast there is a segment on [i]Humanae Vitae[/i] where it is mentioned that most young couples in the U.K. cohabit before getting married.
I expect that a significant number of them feel that they cannot attend church while cohabiting before marriage because such conduct is against Church rules. I know that this is the case in the U.S.
Do they stay away because they know that God is watching or because they will be harangued or because they fear criticism or simply because we fail to tell them to come anyway?