Anglican Communion Map

Map of the Anglican Communion to illustrate the Conference

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Meeting ‘to prevent inconveniences’

THE INVENTION of the steamship made it possible to cross the Atlantic in reasonable time and comfort.

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Beware brickbats and cabbage stalks

WHEN BISHOPS and their spouses arrived at the Lambeth Conference this week, it is unlikely that their “Welcome to Canterbury” packs gave the true reasons...

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Boarding the ark

THERE ARE many possible processes and outcomes that might be expected from Lambeth 2008. Here is one possibility.

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Time to find a balance

1. Move away from the old colonial ideas of Communion

OF COURSE, these were exploited at the GAFCON meeting (News, 4 July...

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Hope to the helpless

I expect that the bishops who are coming to the Lambeth Conference are coming with their dioceses in mind.

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Reason all the wives are here

THIS week, not only 657 bishops but 543 bishops’ spouses descended on Canterbury.

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They work; so train spouses

For many Christians, faith is really only about our personal relationship with God.

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Insights into a joint ministry

My heritage is from a Christian family in West Bengal in India.

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Setting the law on the Anglicans

THE THIRTEEN Lambeth Conferences from 1867 to 1998 have never fully addressed the place of law in the life of the Church.

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