Happy Absalom Jones Day!.
Ruth Gledhill is, of course, gleefully reporting that the sky is about to fall in her daily blog report over at Times Online while Jonathan Petre offered perhaps the most amusing of today's reflections (including fashion commentary) with Primates in their unnatural habitat over at the Telegraph.
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On a more serious note, The Living Church is reporting: The dismissal of Presiding Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori and Archbishop of York John Sentamu will be among the first items under discussion in an alternate agenda proposed by the Global South coalition for the primates’ meeting in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. (Click here for George Conger's full report)
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For a good overview, The Independent has a great "Anglican Schism 101" piece particularly well suited to any Rip Van Winkle types who just woke up and are wondering what all the fuss is about: [thanks to Jim Naughton for the link!]
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[excerpt] Can the sides be reconciled? -- Most observers would say not. Not on the fundamental questions of right and wrong. The opposing positions are too rigid and are, if anything, hardening. The traditionalists are insisting on a full apology and retraction by the North American churches. The Episcopal Church is adamant in its refusal to back down. The best hope that Dr Williams can have is that he can just keep the various sides talking through the conference on the basis that anything that steps back from the brink is better than lurching into a full fracture of the worldwide communion - even if this means accepting that some parts of the Church will refuse to speak to other parts. It also leaves him some time for further efforts at conciliation before the Lambeth conference next year.
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Another George Conger TLC piece gives us an update on the "who" of the who/what/where/when of the Dar-es-Salaam Meeting in: Large Class of New Primates in Tanzania
And The Christian Science Monitor headlines "Anglican leaders under pressure to prevent schism" in its Tanzania article du jour:
[excerpt] It's a meeting where church leaders are supposed to discuss affairs, not decide them. And yet as the 38 leaders of the worldwide Anglican Communion gather in Tanzania for a meeting that kicks off Wednesday, they find themselves grappling with one of the severest challenges in its history: Can it avoid a schism between traditionalist and liberal factions?
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Stand Firm is offering video updates ... (Do take your requisite grain of salt along with you if you venture there!)
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"Confusion Ahead of Anglican Primates Meeting" is the headline of this Ekklesia piece subtitled, "Moderate evangelicals are also upset at the vituperation of the current arguments in the church." Or not. Stay tuned for tomorrow's episode of "All Tanzania All the Time"
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[excerpt] Amid confusion about who will play a role at the global Anglican Primates meeting in Tanzania this week – with reports that even the evangelical Dr John Sentamu is unacceptable to hardliners gathered around Nigerian Archbishop Peter Akinola – a UK-based broad church organization has declared “Enough is Enough."
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Or not. Stay tuned for tomorrow's episode of "All Tanzania All the Time"
For a good overview, The Independent has a great "Anglican Schism 101" piece particularly well suited to any Rip Van Winkle types who just woke up and are wondering what all the fuss is about: [thanks to Jim Naughton for the link!]
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[excerpt] Can the sides be reconciled? -- Most observers would say not. Not on the fundamental questions of right and wrong. The opposing positions are too rigid and are, if anything, hardening. The traditionalists are insisting on a full apology and retraction by the North American churches. The Episcopal Church is adamant in its refusal to back down. The best hope that Dr Williams can have is that he can just keep the various sides talking through the conference on the basis that anything that steps back from the brink is better than lurching into a full fracture of the worldwide communion - even if this means accepting that some parts of the Church will refuse to speak to other parts. It also leaves him some time for further efforts at conciliation before the Lambeth conference next year.
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Another George Conger TLC piece gives us an update on the "who" of the who/what/where/when of the Dar-es-Salaam Meeting in: Large Class of New Primates in Tanzania
And The Christian Science Monitor headlines "Anglican leaders under pressure to prevent schism" in its Tanzania article du jour:
[excerpt] It's a meeting where church leaders are supposed to discuss affairs, not decide them. And yet as the 38 leaders of the worldwide Anglican Communion gather in Tanzania for a meeting that kicks off Wednesday, they find themselves grappling with one of the severest challenges in its history: Can it avoid a schism between traditionalist and liberal factions?
.
Stand Firm is offering video updates ... (Do take your requisite grain of salt along with you if you venture there!)
.
"Confusion Ahead of Anglican Primates Meeting" is the headline of this Ekklesia piece subtitled, "Moderate evangelicals are also upset at the vituperation of the current arguments in the church." Or not. Stay tuned for tomorrow's episode of "All Tanzania All the Time"
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[excerpt] Amid confusion about who will play a role at the global Anglican Primates meeting in Tanzania this week – with reports that even the evangelical Dr John Sentamu is unacceptable to hardliners gathered around Nigerian Archbishop Peter Akinola – a UK-based broad church organization has declared “Enough is Enough."
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Or not. Stay tuned for tomorrow's episode of "All Tanzania All the Time"
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