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Aug 1 5 tweets 2 min read
The longer I look at the #LambethCalls on Anglican identity, the less I like it. What we have is one instrument of communion, the #LambethConference, asking another instrument of communion, the Abp of Canterbury to charter a group to review the instruments of communion. 1/
When you consider that every member of a third instrument of communion, the Primates Meeting, is included in the #LambethConference and recall that @JustinWelby has given primates much more influence over the fourth instrument of communion, the Anglican Consultative Council 2/
… you begin to see where this is going. The Anglican Consultative Council is the only instrument of communion that includes clergy and lay people. It is the instrument Welby has had the hardest time getting to do his bidding. 3/
The ACC is on the block here, and so is the ability of people who are not bishops, especially people who are not primates, to influence the life of the Anglican Communion. 4/
I was once enthusiastic about the creation of an Anglican Congress, but in this context—membership and powers will suit the needs of Lambeth Palace and the Anglican Communion office—I am now apprehensive. The Episcopal Church needs new ways of pursuing Anglican relationships 5/5

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Aug 2
I share a measure of the generally positive response to @JustinWelby’s speech on human sexuality at the #LambethConference. It is enormously helpful to have him acknowledge that churches moving towards marriage equality do not regard scripture lightly. 1/
It is also an enormous relief to have him announce he does not seek to punish member churches in the #Anglican Communion, because his predecessor was inventive and persistent in trying to do so. #LambethConference 2/
And I am grateful that in restating the uncontested fact that Lambeth 1.10 exists, he simultaneously took the legs out from under those at this #LambethConference who want to break the communion over this issue. 3/
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Jul 30
News about how the #LambethCalls will be discussed and voted upon has finally been released. It would seem there is to be no floor debate, just small group conversation and report backs from some of the groups followed by voting yes, needs more work, or no. 1/ #LambethConference
The document contains no provision for offering amendments. So, without some kind of special provision, I don’t see how Lambeth 1.10 can be re-introduced. This is not to say shenanigans may not ensue. 2/ #LambethConference #LambethCalls
The feedback from the small groups will be given to a “Phase 3” implementation group. I didn’t know there were phases, or that we were all the way up 3. I suspect I am not alone in wanting to know who is in this group and who is in charge. 3/ #LambethConference #LambethCalls
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Jul 25
.⁦@JustinWelby⁩ has some explaining to do. Bishop Kevin Robertson, was a member of the group that drafted the controversial #LambethCall on Human Dignity. It never included a call to reaffirm the homophobic Lambeth 1.10. He doesn’t recognize it. 1/ facebook.com/684821280/post…
He writes: “I never agreed to this Call in its current form. At no point in our meetings did we discuss the reaffirmation of Lambeth 1.10 at the Conference, and it never appeared in any of the early drafts of our work together.” 2/
“I can confidently say that the Human Dignity Call in its current form does not represent the mind of the drafting group, and I distance myself from the reaffirmation of Lambeth 2.10 in the strongest possible ways.” 3/
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Jul 22
Three cheers for @azbishop who isn’t taking what Justin Welby is handing out about the #LambethConference.

The Lambeth Calls for Whom? conta.cc/3Pw5nVb
“Receiving this document so late means that many of us are already in Europe; many of us have not had the time to truly read and study the Lambeth Calls; and there is no opportunity for reflection—or much organizing—before the Conference begins.” 1/
“It is hard not to assume that this is intentional. And it has left a poor taste in my mouth as I prepare for Lambeth. There ought to be no deceit in following Christ.” 2/
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