Gay Issues Left Undecided at Lambeth Conference

Rebekah Montgomery
Crosswalk.com Contributing Writer

Whether or not you are Anglican or Episcopal, you will want to take notice of what happened—or didn't happen—at the once-a-decade Lambeth Conference in Canterbury, southeast England. Regardless of denominational affiliations, the same issues chaffing Anglicans worldwide are demanding the attention of nearly every group of believers and very well may affect your church's direction now and in the future.

Some 650 bishops attended the 20-day conference, which ended July 31, for intensive sessions of worship, study, and discussion. Yet, about a quarter of the Anglica Communion's bishops—including most from Kenya, Nigeria, Rwanda and Uganda—opted to stay away after the Church of England, the Communion’s mother church, okayed women as bishops. the rest