Telegraph: Anglicans struggle to find a safe place for sex

Bishop Clive Handford, a former primate of Jerusalem and the Middle-east, struggles with describing how the working group he chairs is going to find a way to hold the Anglican Communion together.

This is hardly surprising, because there is much about the Anglican Communion that defies description. But Bishop Handford manfully struggled for suitable analogies in the sweltering briefing room at the Lambeth Conference in Canterbury.

The Windsor Continuation Group, which sounds like the team which renovated the Queen’s castle but is charged with finding a way to unite Anglicans, has produced some preliminary observations which propose a Pastoral Forum (again, perhaps a little rose garden where the Great Hall burned down) and a “safe space” where those who can’t accept openly homosexual bishops ”“ to take a completely hypothetical circumstance at random ”“ can find sanctuary, while remaining inside the Communion.

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3 comments on “Telegraph: Anglicans struggle to find a safe place for sex

  1. A Floridian says:

    After that headline, Canon Harmon, surely you meant to close the comments? I am praying hard for self or rather Holy Spirit control.

    Heh! That’s enough to say.

  2. libraryjim says:

    GA/FL
    Likewise! Oh. my. stars!

  3. Harvey says:

    Shouldn’t Sanctified sex be a better way. At least it started that way in Genesis. Nuff said!!