Lambeth analysis
David Harris
September 1, 1998
WHAT HAPPENED at Lambeth? More to the point, what was the vote on sexuality all about? Why was it even on the agenda? And what
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WHAT HAPPENED at Lambeth? More to the point, what was the vote on sexuality all about? Why was it even on the agenda? And what
PUNDITS HAVE ALREADY marked this as a watershed Lambeth Conference. “It’s a new church,” said one observer in the press gallery near the end of
Canterbury In 1978, it was women’s ordination to the priesthood, in 1988, women bishops, in 1998, it was homosexuality. But unlike previous Lambeth Conferences that
WE ARE NOT (divided).’ With those words, Archbishop Michael Peers brought the church’s 35th General Synod to a close in a short speech that summed
SHOULD CLERGY be fired without cause? General Synod is about to consider a law that would permit just that. It is a well-intentioned but it
Better palliative care, not permitting euthanasia or physician assisted suicide, should be the focus of medical care for the dying, is the recommendation of a
IT’S NOT THE WAY one would choose to have the proverbial 15 minutes of fame but then again that was probably the furthest thing from
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