Lambeth 5
Archbishop Greg on BBC
Archbishop
Greg Venables was interviewed on BBC’s
Hardtalk. In the almost 24 minute interview, he said the Anglican
Communion has held contradictions together for a long time and it doesn’t look
like we can hold it together any longer. “We’re Christians,” he said. “We
believe in miracles… but we’ve spent the last 10 years trying to sort it
out…” He expressed great sadness at the situation. Liberalism is
becoming intolerant, he said. He even dared to use the “s” word – sin.
In the International media and on the blogs (mostly about
Lambeth)
Time – July
09 08 – Could
the Pope aid an Anglican split?
VirtueOnline
– July 09 08 – Reflections:
A new (unique) Anglican Province for North America
WalesOnline
– July 10 08 – How
globalization is making Anglican schisms easier
Financial
Times – July 11 08 – Communion
and discord
Telegraph –
July 11 08 – …
Katherine Jefferts Schori wades into women bishop row
Associated
Press – July 11 08 – Religion
in the news
EpiscopalLife
online – July 11 08 – Hong Kong: Anglican
primate criticizes GAFCON…
Church
Times – July 11 08 – Central
control not Anglican, says Williams
Church
Times – July 11 08 – Defiant
amid the doubters
International
Herald Tribune – July 11 08 – A divide widens
in the Anglican Church
Telegraph –
July 12 08 – More
than one in four bishops to boycott Lambeth Conference
Christianity
Today – July 12 08 – Bishops
waver as Lambeth beckons
TimesOnline
– July 12 08 – As
Lambeth beckons …rebels don’t know if they are … going
Telegraph –
July 13 08 – Archbishop
Tutu warns … leaders not to abandon … tolerance
Telegraph –
July 13 08 – Gay
bishop Gene Robinson criticizes Archbishop of Canterbury…
Telegraph –
July 13 08 – Church
could appoint Britain’s first gay bishop…
Telegraph –
July 13 08 – Dr
Rowan Williams’ … power to be tested at Lambeth Conference
Telegraph –
July 13 08 – Dr
Rowan Williams: Robust in the face of torment
Guardian –
July 13 08 – What does
the Bible really sat about homosexuality?
Guardian –
July 13 08 – Ian
McKellen accuses Anglican church of homophobia
Guardian –
July 14 08 – Gay
bishop accuses church leaders of mistake over invitation snub
TimesOnline
– July 14 08 – Gay
American Bishop … accuses opponents of ‘idolatry’
Telegraph –
July 14 08 – Gay
clergy split is “most perilous crisis’ in Church’s history
The
Jerusalem Post – July 14 08 – Keeping
the communion holy (includes lengthy interview with Bishop David Anderson
of the American Anglican Council)
BBC – July
14 08 – Sexuality
stance ‘embarrasses’ Anglicans
Financial
Times – July 14 08 – Meetings
resolve almighty issues
Christianity
Today – July 14 08 – Dioceses
of Lichfield and Singapore in … partnership
Guardian –
July 15 08 – The
Lambeth conference (Q&A)
Telegraph –
July 15 08 – The
Lambeth conference wafflathon
The
Guardian – July 15 08 – …Williams
needs a miracle to keep church intact
USA Today –
July 15 08 – Anglican
divisions lurk under the surface of Lambeth Conference
All Africa
– July 15 08 – Uneasy
calm as major split looms large in Anglican Church
Guardian –
July 15 08 – Main
players at the Lambeth conference
Guardian –
July 15 08 – Lambeth
conference: the absentees
Telegraph –
July 15 08 – Anglicans
hold out olive branch to opponents
Reuters –
July 14 08 – Gay bishop
calls for firmer leadership
The
Independent – July 16 08 – Exclusive:
Pope rides to Rowan’s rescue
BBC – July
16 08 – What is the
Lambeth Conference?
Telegraph –
July 16 08 – Benedict
is encouraging Anglican converts
Telegraph –
July 16 08 – Ex-Anglican
communities to become Catholic, Rome confirms
Edinburgh
Evening News – July 16 08 – Bishops
braced for a battle
Daily Mail
– July 16 08 – Archbishop
of Canterbury snubbed as a … bishops boycott talks
Christian
Science Monitor – July 17 08 – Boycott underscores
Anglican rift
Guardian –
July 17 08 – US
bishop hits out at African church leaders
Telegraph –
July 17 08 – Lords
lament Lambeth
Telegraph –
July 17 08 – Lambeth
Conference won’t solve church’s problems
TimesOnline
(Ruth Gledhill blog) –
July 17 08 – Lambeth
Diary: the ‘Clean and the Unclean’ Church Times – July 18 08 – Dr Jefferts Schori:
‘We can get beyond sexuality’
Church
Times – July 18 08 – Bishops
rally behind Dr Williams as Conference starts
Church
Times – July 18 08 – Let’s
talk modestly about God, Archbishop urges Muslims
Associated
Press – July 17 08 – Anglican
head says bishop boycott ‘wounds’ summit
VirtueOnline
– July 18 08 – Lambeth
conference no longer defines who is an Anglican
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NOTE:
in the article above, David Virtue has compiled a lengthy list of Anglican
bishops not at Lambeth – including those not invited
Guardian
(blog) – July 18 08 – Americans
are calling the shots … at Lambeth conference
Telegraph –
July 18 08 – Archbishop
of Canterbury faces calls to stop … clergy defecting
TimesOnline
– July 19 08 – Credo:
the average Anglican is a black, female teenager
The Telegraph lists its picks for the
50 most influential Anglicans
While the
Telegraph clearly didn’t get it entirely right – after all, there’s only one
Canadian on the list, Bishop Michael Ingham – here are some names you’ll
recognize:
50. Ephraim
Radner – North American theologian (now a Wycliffe)
43. Chris
Sugden – Anglican Mainstream and driving force behind GAFCON
39.
Ian Earnest – Primate of the Indian Ocean and chair of CAPA
38. Michael
Poon – theologian (Singapore)
37. Bob Duncan – Bishop of Pittsburgh, head of the
Anglican Communion Network and leader of the Common Cause Partners in
36. Kendal Harmon – blogger (TitusOneNine) and
theologian
33. Philip
Giddings - convener of Anglican Mainstream
32. Jane
Williams – Theologian and wife of the Archbishop of Canterbury
26. John
Chew – Archbishop of
25. Benjamin
Nzimbi – Archbishop of
24. Mouneer
Anis - Bishop of Jerusalem and the Middle East
22. Nicky
Gumbel – of Alpha course fame and vicar of Holy Trinity Brompton
21. Michael
Ingham - Bishop of New Westminster
16. Martyn
Minns - missionary leader of the Convocation of Anglicans in North America
15. Lord
Carey - former Archbishop of Canterbury
14. Gregory
Cameron - Deputy secretary-general of Anglican Consultative Council.
13. Kenneth
Kearon - secretary-general of Anglican Consultative Council
12. Drexel
Gomez - Archbishop of West Indies
11. Tom
Wright - Bishop of Durham
10. John
Sentamu - Archbishop of York
9. Michael Nazir-Ali - Bishop of Rochester
8. Peter Jensen - Archbishop of Sydney
7. Greg Venables - South American primate
6. Desmond Tutu – former Archbishop of Cape
Town
5. Henry Orombi - Archbishop of Uganda
4. Gene Robinson - Bishop of New Hampshire
3. Peter Akinola - Archbishop of Nigeria
2. Katherine Jefferts Schori - Presiding Bishop of the Episcopal Church
of the US
1. Rowan Williams - Archbishop of Canterbury
Archbishop Akinola to stay until 2010
Nigerian
bishops have
asked Archbishop Peter Akinola to stay in office until 2010. He had
planned to retire by next January.
Excommunicated pro-gay Ugandan bishop to visit Lambeth
Christopher
Ssenyonjo, a former bishop in the Church of Uganda who was defrocked in 2002
and later excommunicated by Archbishop Henry Orombi, is claiming he was invited
to Lambeth Conference. However, Uganda’s New Vision website says the
Archbishop of Canterbury denies inviting him. A spokesperson for
Archbishop Orombi said that they understood Ssenyonjo’s visit to England was
being funded by Integrity USA, an American gay lobby group.
Archbishop Orombi and the bishops of the Church of Uganda have chosen not to
attend Lambeth.
Church of England “Episcopal inflation”
The Times of London
has an interesting visual showing the more that four-fold growth in the number
of bishops in the Church of England (CoE) since 1850 at the same time as
average Sunday attendance (ASA) has plummeted from about 3 million to less than
1 million and the percentage of babies born in England baptized in the CoE has
gone from 80% to 15%. Bottom line: In 1850, one bishop per 115,000 ASA;
In 2008, one bishop per 8,000 ASA.