Canada: Primate looks ahead to Lambeth with hope and anxiety

Marites N. Sison
staff writer
Jul 14, 2008

Archbishop Fred Hiltz, primate of the Anglican Church of Canada, sat down for a short interview with the Anglican Journal before he left to attend the Lambeth Conference in Canterbury, England. Excerpts:

Q: What are your thoughts as you prepare to leave for Lambeth?

A: I’m hopeful that the conference will be a true reflection of the theme, which is “God’s people for God’s mission,” and that every effort that’s been made to plan the conference would, in fact, materialize in a lot of conversations about mission. The anxiety that a lot of us have alongside that hope is that there may be some other agendas at work which would steer us into some very difficult conversations around sexuality. We’re going to have those conversations but my hope is that those conversations will not dominate the agenda or in any way skew the agenda that’s been planned. The themes of the day also reflect the whole variety of perspectives on mission and that looks attractive, certainly to me, and lots of others. the rest