Canon Phil Ashey: Lambeth 2022 Diary: Clarity out of Confusion

Excerpt: 

"Confused. This is the state of the Communion in which we now live regarding the authority and clarity of the Bible in Anglican belief and practice. Another bishop from South Sudan put it this way: “We are in the middle of spiritual warfare, and we are in need of putting on the full armor that Paul talks about in Ephesians 6.”

Later in the afternoon, we sat for the final Lambeth press conference, which you can watch online here: https://app.frame.io/reviews/06cc21f3-31c1-4299-9f95-33fc4fabd73b/d0a660dd-ffcf-4302-9295-02aed483166b. It was an opportunity for Archbishop Welby and other leaders to share the accomplishments and unfinished business of this conference, along with answering any unanswered questions and tying up loose ends. One of the topics that came up was the Communique of Orthodox Bishops of the Global South (5 August 2022), which states unequivocally that these bishops are not walking together with those who will not abide by Lambeth Resolution 1.10 (1998): “Our willingness as orthodox bishops to attend this conference does not mean that we have agreed to ‘walk together’ with the revisionist primates and bishops in the Anglican Communion.” (para. 5.5) And yet, the closing words of Archbishop Welby’s letter to the bishops on Lambeth Resolution 1.10 (1998) and the message from Lambeth that “the bishops are walking together despite deeply held differences” were repeated every day, at every opportunity, including this final press conference." Read it all...