Archbishop calls for 'updating' of Anglican image
By Simon Santow

More drum kits and fewer stained glassed windows - that is the future of the Anglican church through the eyes of the leader of Australia's largest Anglican community.

Sydney Archbishop Peter Jensen has used the church's annual synod, or parliament, to attack his own church as forbidding and unnecessarily old-fashioned.

But there is a definite limit to Dr Jensen's appetite for change.

He says there is still no need for women to become priests in his diocese, or for the church to embrace the openly gay.

At a time when there are fears of a split in the worldwide Anglican communion over homosexuality, Dr Jensen's message to the faithful is about making the church more accessible to outsiders. the rest

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