A report was provided to HOB from the Ecclesiology Committee. Following table discussion, a panel answered questions from HOB ”“ Bishop John Buchanan of Chicago; Bishop Bill Franklin of Western New York; Bishop Bill Gregg of North Carolina; Bishop Pierre Whalon of Convocation of Episcopal Churches in Europe; and the Rev. Gay Clark Jennings, President of the House of Deputies. The House discussed the importance of the founding of the church and its past as primer for the conversation about the future of the church.
[blockquote]Canon David Porter, Archbishop of Canterbury’s Director of Reconciliation, on the Archbishop of Canterbury’s Vision for Reconciliation[/blockquote]
Well, so wet-behind-the-ears enthusiastic Canon David Porter is there – surprise, surprise – not! Hot foot from the Trinity Wall Street financed ‘lets make African Bishops talk to US and Canadian ones’ event in Capetown
[blockquote]African and North American bishops left the recent Consultation of Anglican Bishops in Dialogue “with great hope,†they said in a collective statement issued at the conclusion of their meeting in Cape Town, South Africa, from May 2 to 5.
The dialogue was one in a series of meetings, established to help heal divisions within the Anglican Communion.
This fourth meeting focused on reconciliation, and included presentations on Truth and Reconciliation commissions in South Africa, Canada and Burundi. The 18 bishops—from Kenya, South Africa, Burundi, Zambia, South Sudan, Malawi, Ghana, the U.S. and Canada—also heard about reconciliation efforts in The Episcopal Church, which has been divided over issues of sexuality, as well as efforts being made elsewhere in Africa and North America.
The Rev. Canon Isaac Kawuki-Mukasa, from the national office of the Anglican Church of Canada, worked with Archbishop Colin Johnson from the diocese of Toronto to establish the dialogues[/blockquote]
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[blockquote]The bishops’ written statement, titled “A Testimony of Hope,†noted that they were blessed and encouraged by the presence of Canon David Porter, the Archbishop of Canterbury’s director of reconciliation: “Canon Porter observed that Anglicans sometimes have ‘bad’ fights, but need to learn how to have ‘good’ ones, because there will always be points of conflict in our relationships. This gathering has had all the hallmarks of what good conversation should look like.â€
Porter has invited the bishops to meet in Coventry, England. Kawuki-Mukasa said the bishops, who are keen to continue their dialogue, have committed themselves to meeting next year and possibly the year after as well.[/blockquote]
Perhaps someone will give Porter some money stolen from the UTO to take back to Lambeth Palace to finance his ‘Reconciliation’ Program just like TEC financed all the previous ones.
Meanwhile wise monkeys will close their eyes, mouths and ears to just how much ‘Reconciliation’ is really being practiced by Porter’s hosts: ‘Bishop of the new TEC South Carolina Diocese asks the judge to reconsider in Episcopal case, and legal request of the new S.C. TEC Bishop to reconsider dismissal, and so on.
Different man at Lambeth Palace, same old lies, same old deceiver.