A Cure for the Lambeth Hangover?

Aug 11, 2022 by

by Anglican Futures:

As the bishops of the Anglican Communion disembark from their flights and return to their dioceses, there is a danger that some will rub their eyes, and realise that however great the party was, there has been a price to pay.

In an off the cuff remark, at one of the Press Conferences, the Archbishop of Canterbury joked that something he had said was, “Typically English – frightfully polite and absolutely ruthless.”

The key meeting of the Lambeth Conference took place behind closed doors on Tuesday afternoon. The bishops were assembled to discuss the Human Dignity Call. We don’t know what anyone else said, but we have been given the script of the Archbishop of Canterbury’s comments – which were described by one Canadian bishop, as “a masterclass in change-management”.

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In his speech he compared the views that deeply divide the church:

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