Greg Griffith
Pittsburgh Bishops to Attend Lambeth Conference
Tuesday, May 6, 2008 =95 6:32 pm
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Bishops Robert Duncan and Henry Scriven confirmed today that they will
be attending both the Global Anglican Future Conference in June and
the Lambeth Conference of Bishops this July and August.
Bishops Robert Duncan and Henry Scriven confirmed today that they will
be attending both the Global Anglican Future Conference in Jordan and
Jerusalem in June and the Lambeth Conference of Bishops in Kent,
England, this July and August.
"After consulting with the people of Pittsburgh and our friends around
the globe, we have come to the conclusion that it is necessary for us
to be present at both gatherings," said Bishop Robert Duncan.
I'm with CJ on this:
To put it bluntly, conservative Anglicans who attend the Lambeth
Conference need to inform my gracious lord of Canterbury that the
problem of the Canadians and the Americans is going to be solved, or
be put on its way to being solved, at the Conference. Indeed Dr.
Williams needs to be informed that the Canadians and Americans will be
the first and, if necessary, the only order of business, regardless of
His Grace's plans.
The great thing about +Iker and +Duncan both going to Lambeth is that
it's going to take some no-nonsense men to do what Christopher talks
about, and when you start naming the no-nonsense men in the Anglican
Communion, +Iker and Duncan make the short list (actually, it's a
short list any way you cut it, but there you are).
The risk in their going, though, is that without Akinola, Orombi,
Kolini and Venables to exert some pressure at the primatial level, the
odds of +Iker and +Duncan being able to engineer a takeover of the
agenda, as Christopher describes, are slim at best. Of course, we
don't know that that's even their intention, which raises the
question: Short forcing Lambeth to deal with the problem, is there a
point at all for them to go?
Think about that question in the context of the long game - meaning
the next 20 years, as TEC chaos increases, member****p and ASA continue
to plummet, property is sold off and endowments are raided.
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