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Archbishop of Canterbury: Church needs to listen properly to the Bible

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The Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr Rowan WIlliams, has told an audience of theological students that both intensely liberal and ultra conservative readings of the Bible are ‘rootless’ and are limited in what they can contribute to the life of the church. In the Larkin Stuart lecture, delivered today at an event hosted jointly by Wycliffe and Trinity theological colleges in Toronto, Dr Williams said that Christians need to reconnect with scripture as something to be listened to and heard in the context of Jesus’s invitation to the Eucharist and to work for the Kingdom.

General Synod 2007: IN PLENARY

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Welcome to the next article of IN PLENARY, a feature that we hope will help Anglicans to appreciate and understand the complex issues that will be before General Synod in June, and also allow you to comment on those issues and to converse with other Anglicans from across the country.

Solomon Islands update

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What follows is an email received from Bishop Terry Brown of the Anglican diocese of Malaita in the Solomon Islands where a powerful earthquake and tsunami occurred last weekend. His note indicates that both the damage and the death toll are substantially higher than reported by the western media. Bishop Brown is a former mission coordinator for the Partnerships department of General Synod.

Augsburg arrives at Anglican bookstore

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Andy Seal, Canadian Director of Augsburg Fortress Publishers assumed interim management of the Anglican Book Centre’s Church House store this week, pending formal completion of a deal that should see Augsburg Fortress take over the store by early summer.

An Easter message from the Primate

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The story is told of a janitor who worked at a synod office that was struggling with a multitude of issues. He went from office to office, picking up the garbage, listening to person after person mumble and complain about each other and the problems they were facing. He got to the end of the hall turned back towards the offices and shouted, “You mean he died for this?” Like so many of the parables, the story remains unfinished. We don’t know how the synod office responded but those spoken words always haunt me during Holy Week.

Church must be safe for gays, Williams says

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The Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr Rowan Williams, has said that the churches of the Anglican Communion must be safe places for gay and lesbian people. His comments come in a welcome to an interim report on the Anglican Communion’s Listening Process, a commitment to listen to the experience of homosexual people. Archbishop Williams warns that the challenge to create the safe space for their voices to be heard and for their dignity to be respected is based on a fundamental commitment of the Communion.

Listening Process Summaries now on-line

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The culmination of months of work on what is known as “The Listening Process,” a process begun in response to the mandate of Lambeth Conference 1998 Resolution 1.10, and subsequent Primates Meetings, is now set out on the Anglican Communion website for use around the Anglican world. The Anglican Consultative Council, at their meeting in Nottingham, requested the appointment of a facilitator for this work.

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