News Updates

News Updates

6/28/2005

• Bishops Eye 'Final Settlement'

  The July 18-22 bishops’ meeting in Los Angeles will seek “a final settlement” of the current dispute, THE LIVING CHURCH has learned. The Rt. Rev. J. Jon Bruno, Bishop of Los Angeles, will host a gathering of up to two-dozen bishops from across the theological spectrum at a facilitated conversation that organizers hope may lead to an amicable settlement of the Episcopal Church’s troubles.

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• Size and Composition of ACC Committees Will Change

  The size and composition of the Anglican Consultative Council’s two elected committees will change significantly as a result of related decisions at ACC-13 in Nottingham. On June 20, delegates voted to add the primates standing committee as ex officio members of the ACC standing committee and on June 25 all but one of the seven ACC members elected came from provinces located in the Southern Hemisphere.

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• Communion is Found Among Those Who Doubt and Hunger

  For his Sunday sermon on June 26 to the Anglican Consultative Council, Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams developed a theme from the Book of Acts, reminding all of the provincial and theological factions present there is “no sign by which you can tell in and of yourself that you are acceptable to God” and calling to the Anglican Communion table all who are “hungry for God’s love, God’s truth and God’s healing.”

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• Ecumenical Visitors Bring Greetings, Suggestions

  Ecumenical greetings for the World Council of Churches, the Mar Thoma Syrian Orthodox Church, Old Catholic Church, Lutheran World Federation, Methodist Church, Baptist Church and Churches Together, a British ecumenical group, interspersed the sessions of ACC-13 in Nottingham.

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