http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/damian_thompson/blog/2008/07/15/the_lambeth_conference_wafflathon
[Telegraph] 15 Jul 2008--I may be wrong, but after looking at the preliminary documents I reckon that the Lambeth Conference is going to witness the most virtuoso display of professional waffling since the League of Nations was dissolved.
Having written glibly about the "controversial" covenant of beliefs that Rowan Williams wants the bishops to take back to their provinces, I've now read a draft of the thing, and can summarise it as follows:
1. If an Anglican province signs up to the covenant, it agrees to not do anything contrary to the policies of the Anglican Communion.
2. If it goes ahead and does it anyway, then it will have ignored the covenant.
3. Which means ... um, we'll get back to you on that.
Or maybe I've misread the draft. This whole covenant thing is elusive, shall we say....
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