For more Greenbelt photos as the weekend progresses try:

• The Flickr Greenbelt2008 tag page - these are photos taken by festivalgoers
• The Greenbelt Festival Official Pictures' photostream

• News report: It would be foolish to let such a gift fall apart, say bishops
• Some of the initial reactions to the Conference: What happened? No one quite knows
• Leader: The story of Lambeth ’08
• Simon Sarmiento reads the bishops’ blogs: Lambeth bishops in their own words

• The Bishop of Durham and others respond to newspaper reports about the Archbishop of Canterbury: Robust responses to ‘low blow’ of leaked Williams letters
• The absence of religion at the Olympic Games: Faith on tight rein in Beijing
• An appeal for help for refugees in Georgia: Georgian leader prays for aid

• Acute food shortages in parts of Africa: African food crisis is part of a ‘silent tsunami’
• Dancing in the aisles in Jamaica: Rejoicing in Jamaica over medal tally
• Todd Bentley: Florida Outpouring: Bentley to be humbled for a season

The final Reflections document, drawn together from contributions made by all of the different bishops' indaba groups has now been made available. An online version is here on the Anglican Communion site, or you can print off a pdf via the same page.

The Reflections show that Bishops are against sin and for goodness and have spent the last three weeks telling each other so, both in general and often in remarkably particular cases, like wanting to stand in solidarity with “the continent of Africa” in calling for a speedy and peaceful settlement involving all political parties that would lead to democratic government” in Zimbabwe - and, please, President Mugabe, stop harassing the bishops and the faithful of our church. There’s lots of combined Episcopal wisdom about ecumenism, worship, the bible, mission and evangelism and a host of recommendations, like a “Lambeth Directory” soon, and a “green Lambeth” next time. But what about the bit we were all waiting for, the bit that is meant only to be a part of the whole picture but, despite everyone’s best efforts here in Canterbury, has been the inevitable elephant in the drawing room? By which I mean sex, but not as Genesis apparently intended it. The news is that, as representing the “generous act of love” the Communion was looking for, there was “widespread support” for the idea of having a three-fold moratorium: no more Episcopal ordinations of partnered homosexual people, no more publicly authorised blessing of same sex unions and, (and this was the sine qua non that got many to agree to the restrictions), no more cross-border incursions with bishops nipping into other provinces to look after disaffected flocks.

But the bad news is that The Anglican Covenant, which most people hope at the conference will draw back dioceses into “the conversation of the Communion” is still seen as fine so long as it doesn’t have any teeth. But where it does try to bite, in section three of the covenant and particularly in its appendix, there there was considerable concern. The bishops were worried about the biblical and theological basis of the Covenant, they said it was “formulaic”, it could prove punitive, restricting, limiting, the Instruments of Communion could end up becoming “micro-managers”, it could be expensive, legalistic, too difficult to implement and it could be “papering over the problems”. The Province, rather than the diocese, could become the local church. “Our modality is historically the ‘bishop-in-synod’ rather than ‘episcopally led and synodically governed’” (something for bishops and synods people in England to consider there). Generally, the Covenant could be a more generous document, couched as an invitation and an instrument of listening. “We need to ask what we can do for the Communion; not vice versa.”

“Except ye become as little children…” The only people known to have breached the Big Top security (called “wall of steel” by one senior press officer) and worship with the bishops and their spouses during the conference was a group of teenagers from Grace Church, Holland, Michigan on Friday evening. As they stood outside the security perimeter, bishops greeted them, others walked past on the other side, but the secretary general of the Anglican Communion, Canon Kenneth Kearon acted. Brooking no opposition, (but helped perhaps by the fact that their pastor was at theological college with Katharine Jefferts Schori, ) he brought the youngsters into the Big Top and announced to the assembled bishops that they were on a pilgrimage from Rochester cathedral to Canterbury. The bishops applauded and invited them to eat with them afterwards. The Bishop of Rochester has stayed away from this conference, but the children from his cathedral came; of such is the kingdom of God.

Another nice straw in the wind was news that the Primate of Brazil, the Most Revd Mauricio de Andrade, having talked to his own bishops, sat down with Archbishop Gregory Venables Primate of the Southern Cone, for a conversation on Thursday. The two had hardly spoken since 2005 when Archbishop Venables took under his wing Robinson Cavalcanti, the bishop of Recife deposed by the Brazilian Archbishop for canonical disobedience as well as another 31 clergy. In April the Brazilian House of Bishops wrote to the Archbishop of Canterbury to complain about the “serous breach of affection and friendship” shown by Archbishop Venables in not even ringing to tell his fellow primate he was visiting “Mr Cavalcanti” in Recife earlier this year. Now, however, the tide seems to have changed. Venables and Mauricio Andrade have sat down together and started to look at what happened. It could be a sign of the times.

The Archbishop of Canterbury’s addresses during the Lambeth Conference retreat in the Cathedral were published on Saturday. He had told the bishops (on the 19^th) “ ‘There is a way which God has opened.’ We may not be clear where and what it is…” The Lambeth reflection document, a kind of omnium gatherum of what has been said during the meetings, is intended to be a coherent picture of what 650 bishops think about their faith and the Communion. It had already got to 18 pages before we got a two-page supplement on the Bible and the Bishop in Mission yesterday ( and we expect more pages later). The supplement said we used the Bible a lot and that it helped. The press conference was told this morning that the “listening group” really had tried to reflect “ the relative weight given to each issue’ by the bishops (which suggests that if this is an ordered reflection, the original material must have been almost impossibly disparate) . One reporter for the Roman Catholic press in Germany tried to find out if the various statements about ecumenical relations were to be seen as one person’s opinion, many people’s opinion, everyone’s opinion and if the latter, whether they were the basis on which other churches could build ecumenical discussions. Canon Kearon said the rule of thumb was that if there was no dissension actually recorded, whatever was said in the reflection document was the mind of the bishops as a whole. I think the Archbishop put it more simply.