Archbishop Williams Proposes 'Indaba' Format for Primates, ACC

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[The Living Church] 27 Aug 2008--The Indaba discussion groups used at last month’s Lambeth Conference were so successful that Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams plans to use the small-group discussion tool again for meetings next year involving the primates and the Anglican Consultative Council, according to a pastoral letter he sent earlier today to bishops of the Anglican Communion.

“Many participants believed that the Indaba method, while not designed to achieve final decisions, was such a necessary aspect of understanding what the questions might be that they expressed a desire to see the method used more widely and to continue among themselves the conversations begun in Canterbury,” he said. “I shall be seeking to identify the resources we shall need in order to take forward some of the proposals about our structures and methods.”