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Church must be safe for gays, Williams says

By Anglican Communion News Service on March 28, 2007

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

By Anglican Communion News Service on March 27, 2007

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.

The Anglican Communion: crisis and opportunity

By General Synod Communications on March 26, 2007

Far too many preachers and speakers find themselves in the position of having too much material and too little time in which to deliver it. One such preacher began his sermon with: “My dear friends, I feel somewhat like a mosquito in a nudist camp. There is so much to do and I don’t know where to begin.”

ECUSA bishops seek meeting with Williams; Three ‘mind of the house’ resolutions adopted

By Anglican Communion News Service on March 21, 2007

Responding to the recent Anglican Primates’ Communiqué, the Episcopal Church’s House of Bishops, meeting March 20 in Navasota, Texas, expressed “an urgent need for us to meet face to face with the Archbishop of Canterbury and the members of the Primates’ Standing Committee.”

CoGS resolutions on the St. Michael Report and the blessing of same-sex unions

By General Synod Communications on March 16, 2007

The following resolutions relating to the St. Michael Report and the blessing of same-sex unions were approved by the Council of General Synod for forwarding to the General Synod in June 2007 for debate.

General Synod 2007: IN PLENARY

By General Synod Communications on March 16, 2007

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.

Cape Town Archbishop summarizes TEAM’s work

By General Synod Communications on March 14, 2007

As it concluded its eight-day conference on March 14, the Towards Effective Anglican Mission (TEAM) conference issued 10 recommendations meant to help to guide dioceses and parishes as they strive to live out their mission in the world.

Response to the Windsor Report

By General Synod Communications on March 13, 2007

In 2003, Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams established the Lambeth Commission on Communion to advise him and the churches of the Anglican Communion on how they could maintain “the highest degree of communion that may be possible” in light of actions by The Episcopal Church (US) and the diocese of New Westminster in Canada, and of some primates and bishops who intervened in the affairs of some parishes. The result was the publication of The Windsor Report in Oct., 2004.

Person by Person, Parish by Parish: 2007 Narrative Budget available

By General Synod Communications on March 12, 2007

A publication that presents General Synod’s 2007 budget in layman’s words and in narrative form is now available for viewing on the web and for download in PDF format.

Anglican women, pledging communion with one another, seek to model reconciliation

By Episcopal News Service on March 8, 2007

As the Anglican women delegates to the 2007 United Nations Commission on the Status of Women (UNCSW) conclude their work this week in New York City, they are pledging to take their commitment “to remaining always in ‘communion’ with and for one another” to the wider Anglican Communion, and especially the 38 Primates, as a model for reconciliation.

General Synod 2007: IN PLENARY

By General Synod Communications on February 27, 2007

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.

Vision and principles of communications

By General Synod Communications on February 23, 2007

The following document was prepared by General Synod’s Communications and Information Resources Committee and endorsed at its meeting in February. The document is being forwarded to the Council of General Synod with a request that it also adopt the document as the basis for the communication practices and policy of General Synod and that it commend it to the church at all levels.

Reflections on the Primates’ Meeting

By Anglican Communion News Service on February 21, 2007

What follows are two edited reports published by the Anglican Communion News Service.

The first features Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams making a statement and then responding to questions after the release of the communiqué prepared by the Primates.

The second document is a short interview with TEC Presiding Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori conducted by Matthew Davies of Episcopal News Service.

Lenten reflection podcast available for download

By General Synod Communications on February 21, 2007

The Anglican Church of Canada has created a series of reflections available for download during Lent, February 21st through April 8th, 2007. These meditations give you a chance to consider questions you might otherwise not think about: Are you taking care of yourself? Are you being truly open and caring with your loved ones? What is important to you? Are you finding meaning in your day to day life?