([London] Times) Church body plans emergency meeting over women bishops vote

Posted by Kendall Harmon

The Church of England body responsible for the defeat of legislation to allow women bishops is to hold an emergency meeting to debate a motion of no confidence in its chairman.
The House of Laity is to meet next month to vote on a motion tabled by Canon Stephen Barney of Leicester that “this House has no confidence in Dr Philip Giddings as chair of this House”.
Canon Barney said he believed Dr Giddings was partly responsible for the “disbelief and ridicule” voiced against the Church of England after the vote against women bishops. He said he believed the vote had badly damaged the “mission” of the Church.

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Posted December 20, 2012 at 3:20 pm

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1. driver8 wrote:

Why can’t the some folks recognize it was their own decisions not to offer appropriate welcome to those who disagree that caused the measure to fail?

If networks of affiliation and plural sites of authority are the way in which the Lord is working amidst the Communion (as the ABC has suggested), why not withing England?

December 21, 12:07 am | [comment link]
2. Katherine wrote:

This is so very illiberal.  Dissent is not tolerated.

December 21, 1:56 pm | [comment link]


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