Task Forces to Study Anglican Communion Concerns
03/04/2007

Executive Council devoted the majority of the public portion of its March 2-4 meeting in Portland, Ore., to ‘mission’, postponing a formal responses to both the Feb. 19 primates’ communiqué and to a proposed Anglican Covenant which was released during the recent meeting of senior Anglican leaders.

“We are conscious that this is the first meeting of a major deliberative body of the church in the wake of the primates’ meeting in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania,” the council stated a letter. “We are in the process of discerning what is means to be members of a global and multicultural Anglican Communion, autonomous yet interdependent, diverse yet living a common life as a family of churches.”

Council authorized the presiding officers (the Presiding Bishop and the president of the House of Deputies) to appoint a work group “to consider the role, responsibilities and potential response of the Executive Council to the issues raised by the primates’ communiqué,” stated resolution EC-008. The task force, which is to be chaired by Bonnie Anderson, president of the House of Deputies, is to prepare a report in time for the June 2007 Executive Council meeting in Parsippany, N.J. the rest at The Living Church