Anglican Mainstream

In terms of programme Friday was much the same as Thursday. Worship and Bible Study followed by addresses in the Cathedral.

People have begun to settle in. The small groups have met twice and more information is coming to light.

And expectations are beginning to mount. One bishop remarked to the effect: we have come all this way, leaving behind important work. We must be open about the issues here and we must deal with them. 

Attention is beginning to focus on the Archbishop of Canterbury’s sermon at the opening service on Sunday, for which we are told there is no advanced text.  The development of the conference will have impact on how people view the retreat.  Has the welcome time for prayer, worship, bible study and addresses been a softening up process for a presentation that it would be very difficult to counter?

There is a media engagement on the nature and impact of those who are not present. At one stage it was claimed that all provinces have a bishop here except Uganda.  Then we learnt that the Nigerian Bishop had gone home, if he had ever come.  David Virtue has compiled a list of all the Bishops who have stayed away, who have been disinvited, who could have been invited and who would never have been invited.  It is a long list prompting him to comment that the Lambeth Conference no longer embraces or defines the whole Anglican Communion. 
 

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