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Covenant hosted a series of essays on the Nairobi-Cairo Proposals from the Inter-Anglican Standing Commission on Unity, Faith, and Order.

Christopher Wells brings our series on the Nairobi-Cairo Proposal to a close, calling for opportunities of encounter by which strangers can again become friends.

For over a century, the Anglican Communion has been de-confessionalized, reduced to institutional relationships via the Communion Instruments. Given this reality, the IASCUFO recommendations are generously made.

Upholding Catholic and Apostolic faith and order, the Nairobi-Cairo Proposals recognize a global communion of churches whose leadership should shared by people from different regions and contexts.

The Nairobi-Cairo Proposals represent the fifth significant attempt to address challenges in the Anglican Communion, attempts which span decades.

Kicking off a two-week series on the succession at Canterbury and its role in the Anglican Communion, Bishop Graham Tomlin introduces the recent Nairobi-Cairo Proposals.

Bishop Graham Kings continues his essay from yesterday on the succession at Canterbury, considering the lead candidates and the selection process.

The Anglican Consultative Council authorized the communion’s doctrine commission to undertake a five-year study of “good differentiation,” exploring “theological questions regarding structure and decision-making to help address our differences in the Anglican Communion.”

Anglicans are encouraged “to renew their commitment to an urgent search for the full visible unity of the Church”

The Inter-Anglican Standing Commission on Unity, Faith and Order asks for restraint.