Revolutionary change in Anglican Church
By Channaka de Silva

October 20, 2007 -Winds of change have blown into the Church of Ceylon, better known as the Anglican Church, as the leaders of the traditionally conservative Christian denomination passed a seemingly revolutionary resolution that could shake the foundations of one of the oldest churches of the country.

Church clergy and lay leaders who gathered at the headquarters of the Church of Ceylon’s Colombo diocese for its annual council sessions passed this resolution through a majority vote which among other things called for a “paradigm shift” in the theology of the church’s mission and vision.

The resolution which was loaded with complicated wordings, passed with surprisingly less resistance last evening and justified the necessity for this fundamental “paradigm shift” as a necessity for the church “in the context of the present post-modern political, social, economic and cultural reality in Sri Lanka”. the rest