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Faith 1, Charity 0
Source: Guardian   Date: 04th August 2008
There were two texts for the world's Anglican bishops as they prepared to leave Canterbury last night at the end of what was anticipated as a make-or-break Lambeth Conference. The first was about faith; the second about inclusivity. Rowan Williams, the Archbishop of Canterbury, dearly hoped that focus on the first would open the way to the second. But for all the talking of the past fortnight, it does not look as if he has had much success in reconciling the two versions of Anglicanism, the evangelical and the liberal, that are straining to breaking point the Communion that links 70 million Anglicans.
 
Healing the rift: how Williams kept his flock together
Source: Guardian   Date: 04th August 2008
The Lambeth conference, one of the four symbols of Anglican unity, takes place every 10 years in Canterbury, but the 2008 summit, which finished yesterday, was held amid an atmosphere of boycotts and recrimination - over the 230 bishops that stayed away and the one that was never invited. It was seen as a crucial test of Rowan Williams's leadership and an indication of whether the worldwide Anglican family could stay together in spite of irreconcilable differences between conservatives and liberals over specific issues. So after hours of Bible study, daily indabas and a near-£2m deficit, what is the outcome?
 
Lambeth conference: Archbishop blames liberals for church rift
Source: Guardian   Date: 04th August 2008
The Archbishop of Canterbury blamed liberal North American churches yesterday for causing turmoil in the Anglican communion by blessing same-sex unions and consecrating gay clergy as he attempted to chart a way out of the crisis that has been engulfing the church. On the final day of the Lambeth conference, a 10-yearly gathering of the world's Anglican bishops, Rowan Williams said practices in certain US and Canadian dioceses were threatening the unity of the Anglican communion.
 
Lambeth Conference: Readers' views
Source: BBC   Date: 04th August 2008
The Lambeth Conference has drawn to a close. The 10-yearly gathering got off to a shaky start when more than 200 conservative bishops announced a boycott. Issues such as the ordination of gay priests have caused rifts in the Communion. Four Anglicans discuss the events of the past three weeks and share their thoughts about the future of the Church.
 
Lambeth diary: Anglicans in turmoil
Source: BBC   Date: 04th August 2008
The Lambeth Conference has ended in Canterbury amid controversy over the issue of homosexual bishops. The BBC's religious affairs correspondent Robert Pigott recorded his final thoughts from the conference, as debate on the vital issues facing the Church unfolded.
 
The death of liberal Anglicanism
Source: Guardian   Date: 04th August 2008
What has the Lambeth Conference accomplished? It has impressed Anglicanism more strongly with the spirit of its leader. Despite the boycott, it has given his vision new authority. A few years ago it looked like Archbishop Rowan Williams was an essentially solitary figure, doing an impossible tightrope dance. The weird thing is that he has persuaded mainstream Anglicanism to join him on the high wire. He has said: "My intensely awkward position is representative of the church at large" – and the church has agreed. Perhaps it has no other option, but dissolution.
 
Way ahead found in Church gay row
Source: BBC   Date: 03rd August 2008
The Archbishop of Canterbury said the "pieces are on the board" to resolve the row over homosexuality which threatens to split the Anglican Church. The announcement came on the last day of the Lambeth Conference, which has been overshadowed by the issue of gay clergy and same-sex unions. About 200 bishops boycotted the once-a-decade forum over the row.
 
Gay bishop led to ridicule for Anglicans, say traditionalists
Source: Guardian   Date: 02nd August 2008
The consecration of a gay Anglican bishop has led to sexual license, a new form of colonisation and ridicule for the church, it was claimed yesterday by bishops attending the Lambeth conference in Canterbury. They aired their grievances during group discussions about the US Episcopal church's decision to consecrate Gene Robinson as bishop of New Hampshire in 2003. In a first draft of these reflections on human sexuality, they explained why the issue of gay and lesbian relations was sensitive and why it posed a challenge for Anglicans around the world.
 
Lambeth diary: Behold the phantom bishop
Source: Guardian   Date: 02nd August 2008
Coming out in the Anglican Communion is no picnic, as the bishop of New Hampshire the Right Rev Gene Robinson will testify. Happily his fellow prelates managed it with aplomb the other day when they avoided veteran gay rights campaigner Peter Tatchell and his 40-foot banner urging them to "Stop Crucifying Queers". To add to the ever-growing categories of bishops the Guardian can now add an eighth: phantom bishops. Conference organisers say there is a bishop who did not register but decided to come anyway.
 
Lambeth 'merely a talking shop'
Source: BBC   Date: 02nd August 2008
A senior archbishop has criticised Lambeth Conference delegates for simply talking about the gay issue threatening to tear the Anglican community apart. Leader of the Anglican Church in Hong Kong, Archbishop Paul Kwong said he was disappointed with mere discussions. He claimed bishops at the Canterbury event spent more time defending their views about homosexuality.
 

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