General News

The Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr Rowan Williams, has responded to the final declaration of the Global Anglican Future Conference with the following statement:

The Final Statement from the GAFCON meeting in Jordan and Jerusalem...

This report is prepared by a Special Interest Group in the Royal College of Psychiatrists. We have limited our comments to areas that pertain to the origins of sexuality and the psychological and social well being of lesbian, gay...

Text of a Press Release issued by the Church in Wales on 18th Sept 2007

A THOUSANDHUNDREDS

HOW YOU CAN HELP US SAY ENOUGH IS ENOUGH

It was, in the end, two American parishes in Virginia going over from the Anglican Communion to the Archbishop of Nigeria that did it. And as a result, the broad,...

A. Greetings

B. The Anglican Church of Mexico

1. History

2. Born as a part of the struggle for human rights in Mexico (we still fight for that).

Ex. the AIDS crisis

3. We are an open, inclusive and...

On the softer line I don't think people should be 'expelled from the Communion' for holding certain views. We have a listening process and ongoing discussion quite simply because this is to some degree a contested issue and I...

27th February

Dear Giles,

Thanks for your letter of 25th Feb and your reflections on where we are in our conversation and where we are as a Communion after Tanzania. Your \'nothing\'s changed and everything\'s changed\' was...

I have read your responses to the Episcopal Church's General Convention in Columbia and to the deliberations of the Subcommittee set up to consider TEC's response to the Windsor Report. A friend of mine described them as...

25th February 2007

Dear Andrew

So, after Tanzania, nothing's changed and everything's changed. Nothing's changed because we still have no resolution on the question of human sexuality and the listening process has progressed...

Here are today's links for an update on Tanzania - more details to follow...

12th February 2007

An open letter has been sent today to the Archbishops of Canterbury, York, Wales and Armagh on behalf of an Anglican clergy organisation (The Society of Catholic Priests), which represents over 500 priests,...

Part of the current teaching is against 'the sexual expression of same-gender love' and you ask how these breach the two great commandments. A full answer would be rather long(!) but in outline - knowing how unsatisfactory this...

11th February 2007

Dear Giles,

It was great to meet up when I was in London last week even if only for an hour or so and to talk face-to-face as well as by these letters. You've packed a lot into your latest in explaining why...

I have to say that in this area I have more respect for the position of Mario Bergner who does not admit the possibility of divorce OR the ordination of women. He is, at least, consistent. Although I suspect he'd draw the...

8th February 2007

Dear Andrew

I was glad to have the chance to meet yesterday. Your last letter, dated 31st January, gave me pause for thought and I needed to work out the best way to respond. Your very clear...