![]() Liberals, meanwhile, criticize the archbishop for being tolerant of homophobia and unjust treatment of the LGBT community within the communion. Welby’s reluctance to hold Anglican priests and bishops accountable for ignoring 1.10 has stirred up a hornet’s nest of ongoing criticism from conservative Anglicans. For these churches not to change traditional teaching challenges their very existence. For them, to question this different teaching is unthinkable, and in many countries is making the church a victim of derision, contempt and even attack. But they have come to a different view on sexuality after long prayer, deep study and reflection on understandings of human nature. ![]() They have not arrived lightly at their ideas that traditional teaching needs to change. ![]() For many churches to change traditional teaching challenges their very existence.įor a minority, we can say almost the same. For them, to question this teaching is unthinkable, and in many countries would make the church a victim of derision, contempt and even attack. In his pivotal speech, Welby also asserted that the stance of Western progressives and Global South conservatives was essential to their ministries:įor the large majority of the Anglican Communion the traditional understanding of marriage is something that is understood, accepted and without question, not only by Bishops but their entire Church, and the societies in which they live. I may comment in public on occasions, but that is all." ![]() “I neither have, nor do I seek, the authority to discipline or exclude a church of the Anglican Communion,” he said. Particularly after Welby announced his priority as archbishop of Canterbury was unity. But he also told The London Times, “I will not punish churches that conduct gay marriages.” The comments were widely seen as an attempt to mollify his critics on both sides.įor some attendees, the high-wire act successfully “lanced a boil” and enabled clergy to conclude Lambeth agreeing to disagree, reported the Religion Media Centre. “We have been greatly encouraged by the bishops worldwide at this conference who have expressed their support, in whatever form, for the Communion to be governed by biblical authority.”ĭuring the conference, Justin Welby, archbishop of Canterbury and the topmost Anglican leader, affirmed biblical teaching that homosexual practice is sinful and that 1.10 remained a valid resolution. “I give thanks to God for all the bishops who have reaffirmed Lambeth 1.10–in its entirety–as the official teaching of the Anglican Communion on Marriage and Sexuality,” said Archbishop Justin Badi, primate of South Sudan and GSFA chair. Some 650 bishops attended Lambeth, which concluded August 8 and was last held in 2008, meaning the GSFA campaign garnered votes from about one-fifth of clergy present. With about 85 million adherents, the Anglican Communion is the third-largest body of Christians worldwide and exists in 165 countries. The conservative Global South Fellowship of Anglican Churches (GSFA) launched an effort last week to have Resolution 1.10, adopted at Lambeth 1998, reaffirmed as the official stance of the Anglican Communion after 2022 conference leaders scrapped an initial plan to affirm the resolution among an array of “calls” or statements on pressing issues. At least 125 Anglican bishops gathered at the Lambeth conference in Canterbury, England, endorsed a decades-old resolution against “homosexual practice” along with a new provision that “renewed steps be taken to ensure all provinces abide by this doctrine in their faith, order, and practice.”
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