The Church of England issued this press release this afternoon.
Addition to General Synod agenda
30 June 2016Following the result of the EU Referendum on 23 June, the Archbishops of Canterbury and York have exercised their powers under the General Synod’s Standing Orders to make some time available at its brief Group of Sessions in July for a debate on a motion endorsing the Archbishops’ recent call for all to unite in the common task of building a generous and forward looking country, contributing to human flourishing around the world.
The debate will take place on the afternoon of Friday 8 July.
The wording of the motion will be made available to Synod members early next week.
The current Synod programme for Friday afternoon can be seen here. The Archbishops’ statement, referred to in the press release, is here.
“contributing to human flourishing around the world.”*
*Terns & Conditions apply. Not all minority groups included. In participating provinces only.
Jolly good thing too! Interesting to see that three of the “Famous Five” candidates to be the next Leader of the Conservative Party were born North of the Border in soon to be independent Scotland. The remaining two are both English Roses. Personally, I am rooting for the Church of England Vicar’s daughter. Yet even Theresa sent out strong Celtic signals when she launched her Leadership Campaign as she chose to wear a Black Watch tartan trouser suit. Further signals were evident in her Desert Island Discs choice. Two records hinted at a future coronation – ABBA’s “Dancing Queen” and… Read more »
Hopefully the Church will wake up to its responsibilities and start advocating unrestricted movement of people worldwide. The plight of immigrants is severely exacerbated by closed borders. The Church of England has lost its zeal for universal social justice and equality and replaced it with Middle-England complacency. It is time it woke from its slumber. Doing so would be unpopular. Even the majority of Synod might be against global equality. So I suspect there will be a session of impressive-sounding rhetoric, a self-important declaration which fails to address true social justice, and no follow-through for the very limited actions which… Read more »
“The Church of England has lost its zeal for universal social justice and equality and replaced it with Middle-England complacency.”
I’m not sure it’s possible to lose something you’ve never had.
Or indeed to replace something with exactly what was there before.
The article http://www.pinknews.co.uk/2016/06/30/heres-where-all-the-tory-pm-candidates-stand-on-lgbt-rights/ might be of interest to Rod Gillis. May and Gove both were strong supporters of the Equal Marriage Legislation. Crabb and Fox opposed (and neither has changed their mind since). Leadsom abstained (by voting both ways—perhaps a truly Anglican approach to all sorts of matters!).