Anglican primates

Māori Anglicans welcomed the Most Rev. Don Tamihere as a new archbishop April 28.

The Rt. Rev. Prem Singh is new moderator of the Church of North India and its Anglican primate.

Should Presiding Bishop Curry have been in Rome? And what does renewal look like?

From the way some Anglicans talk, few would gather that we have spent nearly 50 years as great enthusiasts for primacy.

Timothy Sedgwick has opened a window and let a breath of fresh air into the current Communion debates. Rather than dismissing the issues at hand, he insists we take advantage of this moment.

By Timothy Sedgwick The crisis confronting the the Anglican Communion is not necessarily a tragic moment of division. It is first of all an opportunity to discern what are the ways to respond to Christ's prayer to follow him faithfully that Christians may be one as he and the Father are one, that the world may believe (John 17:21).

Do the primates have the legislative authority to make such a pronouncement? No. But our bond and common identity as Anglicans is not governed by law but by the grace of relationships.

Many have bridled at the primates’ challenge to the maverick Episcopal Church to be a team player. The primates’ attempt at discipline, it is objected, was both clumsy and authoritarian, pushing in the opposite direction of possibly prophetic witness.