Coalition calls for full and free debate on Anglican Covenant
https://archives.anglican.ca/link/article40495
- Author
- Williams, Leigh Anne
- Material Type
- Journal Article
- Journal
- Anglican Journal
- Date
- 2011 January
- Author
- Williams, Leigh Anne
- Material Type
- Journal Article
- Journal
- Anglican Journal
- Date
- 2011 January
- Volume
- 137
- Issue
- 1
- Page
- 1, 6
- Notes
- "Anglicans concerned about the draft Anglican Covenant have formed a new international coalition. About 1,000 strong, they appear to mean business. 'This isn't some sort of ecclesiastical Tea Party', says the Rev. Malcolm French, the Canadian spokesperson for the No Anglican Covenant Coalition. Formation of the anti-covenant coalition was announced in early November. The group aims to promote discussion of both the pros and the cons of the draft Anglican Covenant" (p. 1). "In June [2010] the Anglican Church of Canada's General Synod approved study of the proposed covenant and requested materials to support that study. Through French, the coalition has requested that the national church develop materials that present the skeptics' view of the proposed covenant as well as the positive view" (p. 1, 6). The coalition's English moderator, the Rev. Dr. Lesley Fellows has vowed to oppose the covenant in Church of England diocesan synods and the next meeting of the General Synod. The Rev. Canon Alyson Barnett-Cowan, the Anglican Communion's director for Unity, Faith and Order, said "Absolutely, there should be a debate in all the provinces".
- Subjects
- Anglican Covenant - Anglican Church of Canada
- Anglican Covenant - Church of England
- No Anglican Covenant Coalition
- French, Malcolm
- Crawley, Lesley (Lesley June Fellows), 1970-
- Barnett-Cowan, Alyson (Alyson Mary), 1949-