Lambeth statement calls on Anglilcans worldwide to 'live with difference'
https://archives.anglican.ca/link/article44304
- Author
- Puddister, Matthew
- Material Type
- Journal Article
- Journal
- Anglican Journal
- Date
- 2023 April
- Author
- Puddister, Matthew
- Material Type
- Journal Article
- Journal
- Anglican Journal
- Date
- 2023 April
- Volume
- 149
- Issue
- 4
- Page
- 1, 8
- Notes
- ""Fourth instalment of 'Hearing the Lambeth Calls', a 10-part series on the calls to the global Anglican Communion made at the 2022 Lambeth Conference. This month’s call: Reconciliation".
- "The idea of reconciliation has been attracting a lot of attention in theological circles in recent years, says the Rev. Chris Brittain, dean of divinity at Trinity College [University of Toronto]. Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby wrote a book on it ('The Power of Reconciliation'), he notes, and generally reconciliation is 'in the air'. So it should come as no surprise, he says, that reconciliation was singled out as a priority by the Anglican Communion’s bishops at the Lambeth Conference last summer [2022]. The conference’s fourth call to the church deals with reconciliation, and it begins by stating that God’s reconciling mission is 'central to the ministry of the Church today'” (p. 1).
- "For the Anglican Church of Canada, reconciliation in recent decades has meant addressing the history of colonization of Indigenous peoples in Canada and the church’s own role in the residential school system. But the bishops’ call begins by talking about reconciling difference generally. 'We live with difference, and it is difficult and demanding', it states. 'Let us practice the habits of being curious, being present and reimagining'” (p. 1).
- "National Indigenous Archbishop Chris Harper describes reconciliation as 'an invitation to peace' and to 'walk together'. Within Canada, he emphasizes the continuing need for education to acknowledge Canada’s history of colonization and the church’s own role" (p. 8)
- Bishop Isaiah Larry Beardy, suffragan bishop for the Northern Manitoba Area Mission in the Indigenous Spiritual Ministry of Mishamikoweesh "who attended residential school as a child in Dauphin, Man. and currently resides in Split Lake (Tataskwayak), was part of the Indigenous delegation at James Smith Cree Nation where Welby apologized for the Anglican church’s allowing a 'terrible crime' to occur at residential schools. 'I was there and I listened, and it was a very emotional and very difficult time, especially coming from the perspective of a survivor of residential school', Beardy says. 'The archbishop said it’s good to apologize, but we need to put some action into it', he adds. 'Today, I’m sad to say, I’m still waiting for that'” (p. 8). Bishop Beardy has sent a letter to Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby asking for a donation of at least 20 million dollars. "'The Church of England is not poor', Beardy says. 'It has accumulated wealth around the world and the wealth off the backs of our people. I think it’s time to share that wealth so we can start building healthy communities'” (p. 8).
- Subjects
- Hearing the Lambeth Calls
- Lambeth calls (2022)
- Reconciliation - Religious aspects - Anglican Communion
- Reconciliation - Canada
- Reconciliation - Religious aspects - Anglican Church of Canada
- Indigenous peoples - Canada - Anglican Church of Canada - 21st century
- Indigenous peoples - Canada - Residential schools - Anglican Church of Canada
- Colonialism - Religious aspects - Anglican Church of Canada
- Brittain, Christopher (Christopher Craig)
- Harper, Chris (Christopher Anthony), 1961-
- Beardy, Larry (Isaiah Larry Johnson)
- Location
- General Synod Archives