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Robinson ‘around Lambeth’s edges’
by Pat Ashworth
THE Bishop of New Hampshire, the Rt Revd Gene Robinson, will be “at least as present [at the Lambeth Conference] as if he had been given an invitation”, the Presiding Bishop of the Episcopal Church in the United States, Dr Katharine Jefferts Schori, told a news briefing in New York on Tuesday, writes In a question-and-answer session after the briefing, a live webcast, reported by the Episcopal News Service, Dr Jefferts Schori said that the focus at Lambeth “removes the emphasis on procedure and legislation [and] really brings us back to the heart of what it means to be a Christian community. . . That is the place to where God calls us.” The Millennium Development Goals were an image of what the Communion could be engaged in together, she said. “Together we are building something that moves towards the reign of God when the hungry are fed and children have access to healthcare. We are moving toward the dream of what we hold together; of what a healed world looks like. Lambeth is part of that vision.” She described the Bible-study and Indaba groups as “really about ‘hanging out’ with people you don’t know, getting to know others as incarnate images of God . . . rather than the discarnate communication we engage in on the internet”. But Dr Ian Douglas, Professor of World Christianity at Episcopal Divinity School, and a member of the Lambeth ’08 Design Group, said that the Indaba sessions would not be “shying away from the hard questions”. They would include conversations on the authority of the Bible, human sexuality, gender and violence, Anglican identity, and the Anglican Covenant. Asked about GAFCON, the rival conservative conference in Jordan and Jerusalem, the Presiding Bishop announced that the Bishop of Colorado, the Rt Revd Robert O’Neill, was to be present with the Bishop in Jerusalem, the Rt Revd Suheil Dawani, throughout. Bishop Robinson planned to be in Canterbury throughout Lambeth ’08 and would be “present around the edges”, Dr Jefferts Schori said. Bishops from Province I of the Episcopal Church were planning to offer a reception to enable other bishops to meet him.www.episcopalchurch.org |
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