According to this report, Sir Jonathan Sacks, British chief rabbi, spoke at Lambeth earlier this week about the need to find unity within difference:

The Anglican Communion has held together quite different strands of Christian theology and practice better than any other religion I know, certainly than any other Western religion I know….Covenant is predicated on difference…Between God and humanity-that is the covenant of ultimate difference.

It is striking that this is one of the most robustly theological comments on Lambeth and the current crisis in the Anglican Communion to have been reported on. One of the many wonderful things about the Archbishop of Canterbury is his insistence on speaking and thinking theologically, but many other commentators, on both “sides” of the issue, have not followed suit. Thank-you, Rabbi Sacks, for interjecting this decidedly theological note into the discussion…