The Guardian takes note
Riazat Butt of the Guardian has written a brief article about Bishop John Bryson Chane's column on the Lambeth Conference that appeared on the Cafe earlier this week.
She writes:
His comments, in an article called Stop the Scapegoating, published on a US website, are the most scathing yet about Williams, and he is the first US liberal to break ranks with his church and condemn Lambeth. Bishops from the Episcopal church maintained a united front at Canterbury, despite internal divisions over central issues, and remained on-message by stressing the positives. His assessment is more critical than the one issued by primates from the breakaway conservative movement the Global Anglican Future Conference (Gafcon).
Do you agree with her interpretation of the column?
No, Ms. Butt is quite a bit off target on this one. Bishop Chane was certainly critical about some aspects of Lambeth, but also supportive of others. He found the Bible study groups and the Indaba groups to be positive experiences. But despite +Rowan's claim that this Lambeth was not going to be legislative, the conference concluded with a "non-legislative" final report that was not really very thoughtful and in some ways skewed. (It would have been better if the bishops had just foregone any final report, had a giant group hug at the Peace at the final Eucharist, and then all just gone home.)
I suspect that Ms. Butt and some others of the press (not you, Jim!) were hoping for a Donnybrook at Lambeth, and when it didn't happen they tried to find one where it didn't exist (e.g., Bp. Chane's article).
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September 5, 2008 2:43 PM