Anglican Communion Task Group holds first meeting to ‘maintain conversation’
by Adrian Butcher, ENS:
The Task Group set up after the Primates’ Gathering and Meeting in January to “maintain conversation” has met for the first time and stressed its determination to work together. But it acknowledged the process would take time and could not be rushed.
The primates asked Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby to appoint the group to restore relationships, rebuild mutual trust, heal the legacy of hurt and explore deep differences. Welby presented the group’s mandate to the Anglican Consultative Council’s 16th meeting in Lusaka in April where it was received and affirmed. This week, seven members of the group have been meeting at the Anglican Communion Office in London. An eighth joined in via video conferencing.
“What we are trying to do here is mirror what we desire for the whole Communion,” said the Rt. Rev. Linda Nicholls, coadjutor bishop of Huron in the Anglican Church of Canada. “We are trying to practice in our engagement with each other here what we long for in the wider Communion.”
Archbishop Ian Ernest, from the Province of the Indian Ocean, said exchanges within the group had been frank and open.
See Canon Phil Ashey’s critique of the spin behind this Task Group in this article from May: Why should we care about the Anglican Communion?
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