The Living Church

Procedural missteps at the Lambeth Conference threaten to overwhelm substance and spirituality.

We feel that we are “aliens and exiles” because God is calling us to new places, new possibilities, a new home, a new being. Jesus wants us to be prepared.

“The problem of safe church, of safeguarding… has been the biggest, most painful burden of this role,” said Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby

By Mark Michael Prayers and songs in nearly a dozen languages echoed across the ancient aisles of Canterbury Cathedral, as a congregation of over a thousand joined in the Lambeth Conference’s Opening Eucharist Sunday morning. The Zimbabwean Zinafe Choir danced in procession after ranks of bishops in scarlet convocation robes, while ruffed choirboys and a […]

“We used to receive missionaries from your country,” the primate of South East Asia said to an English host, “and now it is time for us to send missionaries to neighboring countries.”

“The rich gain the benefits of the new technologies and science and they do as they choose. The poor are shut out of the gains and live as they can.”

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Global South bishops seek to reaffirm Lambeth I.10 resolution, which condemns homosexual practice and same-sex marriage