Reflections on the Lambeth Reflections

http://ugleyvicar.blogspot.com/2008/08/reflections-on-lambeth-reflections.html

[The Ugley Vicar] 5 Aug 2008--Is there somewhere on earth where the Sunday afternoons are so interminably long and wet that one’s 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 attempting again a Sudoku puzzle you messed up earlier? Perhaps there is, but for most of us life is too short for me to recommend the exercise (in fact I would much rather you read my own reflections on What on earth is God doing? than even these comments).

We need to remind ourselves what the Lambeth Conference was 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.