Thursday, June 26, 2008

English Bishop Protests Lambeth Conference

This article at "Episcopal Life Online" talks about how Bishop Nazir-Ali of England is not protesting the Lambeth Conference nor is he agreeing to it. In the article (that doesn't really say all that much), it mentions how he spoke at the Global Anglican Future Conference (GAFCON) in Jerusalem, the conference that opposes the rest of the Anglican Communion because of the Anglican Communion's acceptance of openly-homosexual bishops.

Let me get this straight: he went to GAFCON, won't go to the Lambeth Conference, and then prays "[the Anglican Communion] remains united"? How exactly is that going to happen if people like him aren't at the official meeting of the Anglican Communion and instead go to the conference of the splinter group? I don't know much about Bishop Nazir-Ali; he might be a wonderful priest and bishop in most respects, but this is not one of them. Such posturing seems more at home in a political campaign than in a church.

Wait. . . I forgot that that is exactly what these conferences have become.

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