Tomorrow is sex day here at Canterbury, so tonight I’m missing any number of receptions being hosted by groups wanting to get the last word to bishops in advance. Meanwhile the work on the “conference document”, whatever that will turn out to be, continues apace; the listeners draft texts which we then meet each afternoon to critique. Today’s session was remarkable only for the fact that hardly any USA bishops spoke, otherwise we made the usual range of strengthening and clarifying amendments that 600 articulate adults are always going to be able to provide. We’re being told that a number of people have responded to Rowan’s question last night about what they might offer in generosity to those of an opposing view. There’ll be more discussion on that tomorrow.

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Filed under: * Anglican - Episcopal • Anglican Provinces • Church of England (CoE) • CoE Bishops • Lambeth 2008

1. Jeffersonian wrote: With the bishops and archbishops being shuffled about all day and night, who are those who are drafting this “conference document?” July 30, 5:28 pm | [comment link]

2. Grandmother wrote: “a number of people have responded to Rowan’s question last night about what they might offer in generosity to those of an opposing view” This will be a bartering experiment?  How can one barter with the Gospel and the souls of people? Gloria in SC July 30, 8:05 pm | [comment link]

3. dwstroudmd+ wrote: The ABC has bartered away already.  Equating the traditional with the “not so traditional” bartered away millenia of Church teaching and the Dominical observations on marriage.  What’s left to barter is mere materialism stuff.  The ABC has finally and irrevocably come out publically in favor of the position he published in THE BODY’S GRACE.  He only pretended to favor the teaching of the AC in Lambeth 98 I.10 so he could overthrow it in 08. July 30, 8:17 pm | [comment link]

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