Kearon Describes Plans for Lambeth Conference
By Lucy Chumbley
Washington Window
March 2008

During a Feb. 22 talk at Virginia Theological Seminary, the Rev. Canon Kenneth Kearon, Secretary General of the Anglican Communion, described plans for this year’s Lambeth Conference, where issues surrounding same sex relationships will once more be addressed.

About 850 bishops are expected to attend the Lambeth Conference – one of the Anglican Communion’s four instruments of unity – and there has been a flurry of speculation about which bishops have not been invited and which do not plan to attend for political reasons.

“The Lambeth Conference was born out of controversy, therefore throughout its history it has not been a stranger to controversy,” Kearon told a group of about 30 Episcopalians who had braved an ice storm to come and hear him speak. the rest