Tuesday, September 09, 2008

Lambeth: Those Reflections

http://www.anglican-mainstream.net/2008/09/09/lambeth-those-reflections/

[Anglican Mainstream] 9 Sep 2008--John Richardson takes a less than sanguine approach to the final Reflections that emerged from the Lambeth Conference.

Is there somewhere on earth where the Sunday afternoons are so interminably long that ones life would be more enhanced by reading in detail the Reflections on the Lambeth Conference 2008 than by, say, watching another re-run of The Great Escape or re-attempting a Sudoku puzzle? Perhaps there is, but for most of us life is too short for me to recommend the exercise.

What was the Lambeth Conference convened to achieve? The answer is: nothing. Remember, with the exception of the very first (and with interruptions for world wars), Lambeth Conferences have occurred decennially. They are held because it is time to hold one, not (essentially) because there is something that needs to be done which only a gathering of Anglican bishops from all the corners of the globe can achieve.

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