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• Synod Days 2,3 & 4

  Published: July 9, 2007, 10:24 am

  Tags: Anglican Communion, Church Of England, Disestablishment, Gay Debate, Global South, Liturgy

  The importance of the debate on the Anglican Covenant that we report in today's paper cannot be underestimated. Had it been successfully stopped at this point, the signal to the rest of the Anglican Communion, as well as the Church's...

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• Peter Akinola: 'Unity will never be at the expense of truth'

  Published: July 4, 2007, 4:56 pm

  Tags: Africa, Anglican Communion, Archbishop Of Canterbury, Gay Debate, Global South, Peter Akinola

  I was privileged to be given the opportunity the other day to go and meet the Primate of Nigeria, Peter Akinola for an unprecedentedly frank interview. We spoke in his office in Abuja. One focus was the kind of man...

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• Akinola on Lambeth, Canterbury, Islam and ritual sacrifice

  Published: July 4, 2007, 7:47 am

  Tags: Africa, Anglican Communion, Peter Akinola

  The Archbishop and Primate of Nigeria, Dr Peter Akinola, has granted me an exclusive interview. I met him at his office in Abuja a few days ago. The piece will appear in T2 tomorrow, with added coverage online. Meanwhile, here...

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• Another mysterious death in Malawi

  Published: July 4, 2007, 6:05 am

  Tags: Anglican Communion, Murder, Violence

  *Update: See end of post for the man behind Anglican Information. After the anonymous and odious ordure heaped into my inbox by supporters of Nick Henderson the last time I addressed this topic, I consider myself blessed still to be...

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• Gene Robinson 'to be invited' to Lambeth, says ABC

  Published: June 28, 2007, 10:25 am

  Tags: Anglican Communion, Archbishop Of Canterbury, Gay Debate, Lambeth Conference

  A number of Anglicans in England have been writing to the Archbishop of Canterbury in protest at his decision to leave Gene Robinson off the invitation list to Lambeth. I have been 'leaked' one of the letters sent back in...

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• CofE 'would shut down' without its gay clergy, says +Gene.

  Published: July 27, 2007, 1:29 pm

  Tags: Anglican Communion, Church Of England, Gay Debate

  Andrew Collier, a freelance journalist based in Scotland, has just interviewed Bishop Gene Robinson in London. This is the bit I liked best: 'I think the thing that is the most mystifying to me and the most troubling about the...

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• Lambeth RSVP deadline extended

  Published: August 9, 2007, 6:54 am

  Tags: Anglican Communion

  The deadline for bishops to respond to their invite to the Lambeth Conference has been extended, according to a report in the Church of England Newspaper tomorrow. The extension comes after Sydney's six bishops told the Archbishop of Canterbury that...

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• Lambeth and Sydney

  Published: August 9, 2007, 12:45 pm

  Tags: Anglican Communion

  Lambeth Conference of the Anglican Communion's bishops until they learn how The Episcopal Church's House of Bishops responds to the primates' communiqu . If the bishops who participated in the consecration of the Rt. Rev. V. Gene Robinson as Bishop Coadjutor of New Hampshire attend Lambeth, the bishops of Sydney might not, Archbishop Peter

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• Archbishop of York Speaks Again

  Published: August 12, 2007, 5:57 pm

  Tags: Anglican Communion

  from the rest of the communion. That's a bit tough, isn't it? John Sentamu: Well, the Lambeth Conference is an invitation from the Archbishop of Canterbury to all bishops of the Anglican Communion to come to Lambeth and talk of matters of common concern. Now if there is already a fracture within the communion, I would have thought

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• Do nothing to change your life

  Published: August 14, 2007, 6:00 am

  Tags: Anglican Communion

  that Dr John Sentamu, the Anglican Archbishop of York, has announced that he is to send every MP in the country some summer reflection material: The 100-Minute Bible and a guide to slowing down, Do Nothing to Change Your Life The guide, written by the Bishop of Reading, the Rt Rev Stephen Cottrell, and released earlier this year (2007), is

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• What do we make of a slow response?

  Published: August 13, 2007, 9:28 pm

  Tags: Anglican Communion

  in slowly enough that the Anglican Communion office has waived the original deadline. A sign of impending schism, excessive caution or is the mail simply slow? Jonathan Petre of the Telegraph writes that this is a sign of impending schism. Citing the words of the Archbishop of Sydney, who will follow the lead of certain African primates, and

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• Report on the low-key conference in Spain

  Published: August 15, 2007, 7:15 am

  Tags: Anglican Communion

  Anglican Church of Canada News reports on the conference in Spain in late July where African, American and Canadian bishops had the opportunity to meet with their companion bishops. An excerpt: At one of the first plenary sessions, the organizers announced (to much applause) that no official statements would come from the meeting. Instead,

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• Rwandan bishop: satanic behavior of "whites as whites"

  Published: August 15, 2007, 12:28 pm

  Tags: Anglican Communion

  juncture of the life of the Communion, I must act in accordance to the clear guidance of the instruments of the Communion." "It is them that abandoned the faith, the law and doctrine of the church. They also do not believe in the teachings of the bible", Bishop Rucahana said Tuesday in a lengthy interview on state radio. "Their behaviours do

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• Chubu Diocese of Japan asks for help

  Published: August 15, 2007, 5:22 pm

  Tags: Anglican Communion

  of the Chubu Diocese of the Anglican/Episcopal Church in Japan is opposing proposed changes to the Japanese constitution and is asking for help from others to put pressure on the Japanese government. In an Open Letter they write: It is widely believed that changing Article 9 ... will have a major impact in Asia and globally, and there is deep

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• Archbishop of Ireland: the Anglican Covenant and Scripture

  Published: August 15, 2007, 6:30 pm

  Tags: Anglican Communion

  spoke of the proposed Anglican Covenant and current controversies about interpretation of scripture. Preaching on the Feast of Mary Magdalene he compared the boulder blocking the tomb of Jesus to literalist interpretation of scripture. He said, "Bibliolatry is a boulder threatening to obscure the dynamic and contemporary truth of the

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