Bishop Mouneer Anis on Lambeth so far...

From the Times Online:

I find that many of our North American friends blame us and criticise us for bringing in the issues of sexuality and homosexuality but in fact they are the ones who are bringing these issues in. Here at Lambeth, you come across many advertisements for events organised by gay and Lesbian activists which are sponsored by the North American Church. If you visit the marketplace at the conference, you will notice that almost half the events promoted on the noticeboard promote homosexuality and are sponsored by the North Americans. And in the end, we, the people who remain loyal to the original teaching of the Anglican Communion, which we received from the Apostles, are blamed. They say that we talk a lot about sexuality and that we need to talk more about poverty, about AIDs, and injustice. They are the ones who are bringing sexuality into this conference. It’s not us. We want to talk about the heart of the issues which divide us, not only sexuality. That is just a symptom of a deeper problem.

The Pointy Hat Club

This piece from Dean Munday is excellent. Read it all here.....

Once upon a time in a far away place called Dar Es Salaam there was a party attended by boys and girls who liked to wear pointy hats, including one girl who liked to wear a pointy hat, but who sometimes wore a rainbow-colored oven mitt on her head instead. The other boys and girls were very polite and never used the words "oven mitt" in front of the one girl because they knew it would make her very cross.

Some of the folks at the party weren't having a very good time. It seems that in some places there were boys who wanted to live with other boys (the way Mommy and Daddy live together) who had been allowed to join the Pointy Hat Club. The people at the party murmured as how this wasn't a good thing, and agreed that boys who wanted to live with other boys and girls who wanted to live with other girls (the way Mommy and Daddy live together) shouldn't be allowed to join the Pointy Hat Club. The girl who sometimes liked to wear an oven mitt nodded her head and said that was all right with her too.

When all the boys and girls got home from the party, the girl who sometimes wore an oven mitt said that she had not nodded her head along with the others who wore pointy hats and that, furthermore, she thought there ought to be more boys who lived with other boys and girls who lived with other girls (the way Mommy and Daddy live together) in the Pointy Hat Club.......

Nobody expects the Anglican Inquisition

From George Conger

Lambeth: Is Inquisition on the cards?
Friday, 25th July 2008. 7:45pm

By: George Conger,

Chief Correspondent



Canterbury: A “bombshell” report is expected to be delivered to bishops attending the 14th Lambeth Conference on July 28 that is expected to call for the Episcopal Church to abandon its push for gay bishops and blessings.

The request is expected to come in the third presentation of the Windsor Continuation Group (WCG) to the bishops at Lambeth and follows a call for the creation of an Anglican Holy Office to police the boundaries of the faith.

Backed by the Archbishop of Canterbury, the Anglican “Faith and Order Commission” will be a fifth instrument of unity for the Anglican Communion.

Plans for were disclosed on July 23 during the second of three briefings on the work of the Windsor Continuation Group (WCG) chaired by the former Presiding Bishop of Jerusalem and the Middle East, Bishop Clive Handford.

In its briefing paper to the bishops, the WCG commended the creation of an “Anglican Communion Faith and Order Commission that could give guidance on the ecclesiological issues raised by our current ‘crisis’.”



Okay, I can't resist.......



But it will probably be more like this......

Off to the Great American Irish Festival

We're off to the Great American Irish Festival! I think I will ignore Lambeth for the weekend and tune back into the continuing day-time drama on Monday.

A little music to travel by:

BARLEYJUICE

Taking a break from the Anglican Turmoil

The Glengarry Bhoys

Bishop Vader

Brilliant!


From the blogger jerusalemanglican:

Among the many controversial individuals attending Lambeth this year is, of course, Darth Vader, Dark Lord of the Sith, seen left processing with his fellow bishops (h/t: Stand Firm). Although Lord Vader's status as a bishop of the Anglican Communion is, in the words of the Archbishop of Canterbury , Dr. Rowan Williams, "Unclear", he did receive an invitation to the Lambeth Conference, and has been very willing to talk to the press. In a recent interview Lord Vader was asked to comment on the absence of the many conservative bishops, Like Yoda, from this Lambeth Conference, he simply said that he "Found their lack of faith disturbing."
Conservative Anglican leaders from around the world, such as Yoda, Archbishop Peter Akinola of Nigeria, and Archbishop Henry Orombi of Uganda, met recently in a conference of their own in Jerusalem last month.
Regarding Lord Vader's presence at the Lambeth Conference, The Most Rev. Katharine Jefferts Schori, Primate of The Episcopal ...Church said:
"Anglicanism has always been broader than some people are comfortable with. We need to have some serious discussions in the Anglican Communion about The Empire, and about the Dark Side. These are topics some in the Anglican Communion are not comfortable discussing in public." She also went on to say that "Darth Vader is not the only Sith Bishop in the Anglican Communion, he is just open about it."

Lambeth

I have not been posting anything about Lambeth because there is so little that has been reported yet and what has been reported is disheartening.

Take, for instance, this:

"Lambeth Eucharist Ends in Buddhist Chant"

"Anglican Communion Set to Disintegrate"


"Conservative Bishops Guilty of Greater Sin"


"Anglican Communion Like a Slow Moving Train Wreck"

But the most disheartening of all is the ongoing, never ending, perpetual, "It's all about how I feel" Gene Show.