The Scotsman carries an article by Kelvin Holdsworth Scotland leads on tolerance – will the Church of England follow?
The Guardian has Jonathan Magonet writing about the new Reform Judaism prayer book in Face To Faith.
Christopher Howse writes in the Telegraph about A flinty treat at Southwold.
Jonathan Sacks writes in The Times that: It is the young who will likely put an end to knife crime.
The Church Times has a leader: The challenge to do miracles.
And Giles Fraser writes: Beware of the morality of legalism.
3 CommentsYesterday’s press conference was about the proposed Covenant. Here are the reports of that:
ENS Mary Frances Schjonberg Lambeth Conference begins two-day covenant discussion
Anglican Journal Marites Sison Lambeth seeks common ground in proposed covenant
ACNS Press Conference on Anglican Covenant: ‘We are on a pilgrimage together’ and the full audio recording of the press conference is here.
Jim Naughton has some background links and commentary at Live: softpeddaling the appendix.
11 CommentsUpdated Saturday evening
The Bishop of Egypt, North Africa and the Horn of Africa, and presiding bishop of Jerusalem & the Middle East,Mouneer Anis, has held a press conference and issued a written statement.
You can read the written statement in full here.
Update For a full video record of this press conference, go to this ENS page, and navigate by date to to the two videos dated 08/01/08
You can read Jim Naughton’s take on this at Live: Mouneer Anis forgets his lines.
Ruth Gledhill also reports on it, in Endless debate on sexuality ‘is exposing Anglicans to ridicule as the Gay Church’.
The First draft of the Lambeth reflection on the bishop and human sexuality can be found at Episcopal Café under Live: Lambeth bishops reflecting on sexual ethics.
It is also discussed here on ENS and at “No idea” consecration of gay bishop would cause such a stir on Anglican Journal.
Martin Beckford has this in the Telegraph Liberal agenda of Western churches a ‘new form of colonisation’
28 Comments… or more accurately today it’s news from the big white train, as I head back north and west ready for tomorrow’s Three Choirs Festival opening service.
We took photos in our bible study group this morning and I handed round Celtic style cards with knot patterns on like the ones I have at times designed and fabricated into rugs, cushion covers and jumpers. I inscribed in each a Franciscan tau cross and Latin greeting and then appended my email address. Put together that says quite a lot about my spiritual wells. Yesterday a colleague had given each member a copy of the TEC Book of Common Prayer which brought back happy memories of when I used the rite to say matins each morning whilst staying with a Texan priest in Peru.
The indaba groups are moving from direct discussion of sexuality to matters of covenant. I guess there’s a general recognition that we’re not, in two or three weeks, going to build levels of agreement (or agreement to differ) the whole way, but there’s a sense of having made enormous progress in terms of mutual understanding, love and (dare I say it) trust in each other and each other’s integrity. Whilst nothing will satisfy Orombi and Akinola, nor the shady figures from North American behind them, there’s been good solid evidence on campus that archiepiscopal bullying has its limits and that there is a more representative voice of southern conservatism which will listen to those of its neighbours who have been at Lambeth and are able to share the seriousness with which we are working at our unity and respond to such visible signs of progress as can be signed off by Sunday night.
Highlight of the day: (actually last night at the Old Palace reception) yet more conversations with amazing people such as Sebastian Bakare of Harare and Cardinal Walter Kasper.
Lowlight of the day: Train struck a tree so we limped to the next station before being decamped onto the following stopper. Reached Charing Cross 30 minutes late to find Bakerloo line closed.
Last word: Thanks everyone for your comments.
3 CommentsTwo reports from Anglican Journal by Marites Sison
Primate expresses ‘frustration’ that Canadian church’s voice hasn’t been heard at Lambeth hearings
27 CommentsUpdated 5.30 pm with items from Friday:
Covenant is ‘future-directed’ says Gomez by Paul Handley
The sexuality section of the draft ‘Reflections’ document
Feeling stuffed before the final meal
Ugandan Primate criticises Dr Williams
In the paper today:
Many of these are subscriber-only, but here is what you can read now:
Group proposes standstill to ease Anglican tensions
Surmise, frustration, and interest greet proposals
Chief Rabbi pleads with Communion to stay one despite differences
Bishops given frank talk on rape and beatings
See also this list here.
And the CT blog has The indaba groups talk about sex
12 CommentsOther that is than the opinion article in The Times by Archbishop Henry Orombi which is here.
BBC Robert Pigott Lambeth Diary updated again on 1 August, read No Changing of Minds.
The Times Joanna Sugden Hazy deliberation brings no resolution, just reflection
Guardian Riazat Butt ‘Mini Lambeth’ would be the way forward, say dissatisfied bishops and also Lost property, naked bishops, and the mark of the beast.
Telegraph Martin Beckford Archbishop of Canterbury ‘betrayed churches over gay bishops’ (this covers other topics besides Orombi).
And there are numerous stories about what Bishop Cathy Roskam wrote. See here, here, and here.
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