The average Anglican is a woman in her 30s living in sub-Saharan Africa on less than four dollars per day, says Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby.
That African woman’s diocesan bishop probably isn’t present this week at the decennial Lambeth Conference of Bishops underway in Kent, England. It’s something worth keeping in mind as hundreds of vested Anglican bishops, more than 130 of whom hail from shrinking dioceses in the U.S.-based Episcopal Church and Anglican Church of Canada, posed for a photo op that took nearly 90 minutes of arrangement.
These Anglican leaders could provide encouragement in strongly reaffirming the authority of Scripture, or they may be diverted to instead focus on issues of pressing importance to secularists in the West.
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Comment by John Kenyon on August 2, 2022 at 4:59 pm
Good article. Please see: https://www.churchtimes.co.uk/articles/2022/5-august/news/world/lambeth-2022-lambeth-conference-will-not-split-over-homosexuality.
Comment by David F Miller on August 2, 2022 at 8:41 pm
This sounds so much like the split in the United Methodist Church. Is it possible for orthodox Anglicans and Methodists join to form a new Chirtian community? That would be wonderful.
Comment by Jeff on August 2, 2022 at 10:57 pm
“Bishops from several African dioceses have declined invitations to participate in Lambeth this year, noting that sharing in fellowship with the six invited bishops in open same-sex relationships, or with those who consecrated them as bishops, would excuse unbiblical behavior. ”
Just as with the UMC, our Anglican brothers & sisters in Christ in Africa GET IT!
Looking forward to the day when missionaries from Africa are called out by the Spirit to evangelize in America. 😉😁
Comment by David Mu on August 2, 2022 at 11:23 pm
It is my hope this every ten year walk down empire is church thing will end here for this one. It serves no good purpose, and I would hope The Episcopal Church leads by example, and end this sad (and pointless) acting as if there is an actual unity. There is only unity in agreement, and nothing here can keep an illusion of unity for an world-wide Anglican Communion with these profound disagreements.
Let the thing be put down. And as for missionaries coming to America – please, the nation already has enough of the wide variety of options with the Christian-right. In fact – we have too many, and we don’t need the troops taught by them coming here with their add-on bag of native cultural notions. We Americans have enough cultural notions too.
Comment by Pamela Buffington on August 3, 2022 at 3:19 pm
As I watched the various sessions, I was encouraged to see that the Word of God still stands against sin. When this Anglican Communion caves into cultural practices of acceptance of sin, the Holy Spirit will have departed. When is sin not called sin? The Word of God is extremely clear on what is. And, once admitted, repentance and returning restore the sinner to right standing in Christ. The problem is sin is not called sin. What is the next thing to be removed from Holy Scripture? What sin will not be sin any longer? What then can we offer a dying world? Africa seems to have the answer, as does the South, for they are strong in the Word. Again, we all sin, we call it and we confess, repent, return and are restored. BUT, sin must be called by its name as all that is contrary to the Gospel and which sent our Savior to the Cross to die for us and our sin.