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I got an email today: “Why exactly does anyone beyond America’s handful of Episcopalians care about the Lambeth conference?” It’s a good question. As a colleague of mine pointed out to me last year, in 2006, the American Baptist Churches Pacific Southwest region split off from the denomination over issues pertaining to homosexuality, and not…

The bishops’ spouses meeting (and, no, Mark Andrew is not there) has gotten some news attention – perhaps because Lambeth itself seems low-key so far. I have often thought that there is little I would rather do less than be a bishop, but likely being married to a bishop is just as hard, if not…

If you look at the schedule for the Lambeth conference today, the events look pretty tame: Rowan Williams is scheduled to give an address, but other than that there appears to be a lot of worship and a lot of eating. That’s part of what will be distinctive about this year’s Lambeth conference: the focus…

I well remember Lambeth 1998, which took place a month or so after I was baptized in a college chapel in Cambridge, England. I had never heard of Lambeth–the palace, or the eponymous once-a-decade gathering of Anglican bishops. In 1998, the main issue the bishops were said to be discussing was debt relief: on the…
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