Coventry consultation 'providential'
https://archives.anglican.ca/link/article40485
- Author
- Staff
- Material Type
- Journal Article
- Journal
- Anglican Journal
- Date
- 2014 September
- Author
- Staff
- Material Type
- Journal Article
- Journal
- Anglican Journal
- Date
- 2014 September
- Volume
- 140
- Issue
- 7
- Page
- 12
- Notes
- "Participants in the Consultation of Anglican Bishops in Dialogue, at the end of their fifth meeting May 22 to 25 [2014], said they have come to realize that reconciliation is 'far beyond agreeing to disagree' but is about seeking 'not only to tolerate but to understand'. The consultation, which gathered six bishops from Canada, two from the U.S. and 15 from various countries in Africa, met in Coventry, England". "Meeting at the cathedral has been 'providential', said the bishops in a statement. 'We have come to see the challenges of our present life as being less a failure of our life together than an opportunity to live out the truth of what we have been called to be'." "Bishop Jane Alexander, diocese of Edmonton, said the change in the level of understanding among bishops has been 'huge'."
- Article includes colour photo with caption: "Canadian Bishop Jane Alexander and Kenyan Bishop Johannes Angela".
- Subjects
- Consultation of Anglican Bishops in Dialogue
- Reconciliation - Religious aspects - Anglican Communion
- Anglican Communion - Bishops
- Homosexuality - Religious aspects - Anglican Communion
- Alexander, Jane, 1959-