American sceptisim over Lambeth Conference

Saturday, 9th August 2008
By Jenny Taylot

AMERICAN Anglicans at the centre of the row over gay unions have spoken of their ‘scepticism’ at the outcome of the Lambeth Conference.

Brian Turley, 51, twice a Fulbright Scholar, former Professor at the University of West Virginia and now priest in Tulsa, Oklahoma, has accused Dr Rowan Williams of being ‘elastic’ with the Gospel, and of replacing the demands of love with ‘tolerance of anything’.“What you are left with is endless conversation,” he said, speaking from his parish, the Church of the Holy Spirit.

“Christians don’t share tolerance as a core value. Increasingly we are falling into a situation where we are adopting this doctrine of tolerance which is falling well short of where Christ wants us.”

Turley, who attended the Gafcon group meeting in Jerusalem said however that he did not believe there would be schism. And he added that Dr Williams was a man of integrity who was constrained by ‘his culture’. the rest