Primatial Postmortem Church Planting Society of the Sacred Mission November 5, 2017 THE LIVING CHURCH CATHOLIC EVANGELICAL ECUMENICAL From Captivity to Freedom $5.50 World Mission livingchurch.org ‘To the Bottom of the Night’ A study day on proclaiming the Word of God in Advent December 2 / St. Martin-in-the-Fields, Chestnut Hill, Philadelphia Walk through the lectionary texts for the four Sundays in Advent with two of our church’s most prominent preachers and teachers. Stir up your power, O Lord, and with great might come among us. The Rev. Fleming Rutledge is author of The Crucifixion (Winner of the 2016 Book of the Year Award, Christianity Today) and many sermon collections. Dr. Joseph Mangina is Professor of Systematic Theology at the University of Toronto, editor of Pro Ecclesia, and author of the Brazos theological commentary on the Book of Revelation. In partnership with THE LIVING CHURCH Registration: $35, with lunch included. 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Our historic mission in the Episcopal Church and the Anglican Communion is to seek and serve the Catholic and evangelical faith of the one Church, to the end of visible Christian unity throughout the world. news | november 5, 2017 News Analysis Tough Questions for Canterbury ithout doubt one of the most im- long-running disputes about sexuality. sion of the Scottish Episcopal Church Wpressive contemporary Anglican “There will be a whole lot of fresh to revise its official liturgy to allow leaders is the Most Rev. Thabo Mak- energy and fresh excitement — and, same-sex marriages and the first such goba, Archbishop of Cape Town. He is no doubt, some tough questions,” weddings having already taken place, a striking presence with an apt turn of Welby said before the meeting. the rift has deepened. phrase. His spirituality was formed in Chief among these tough questions The 2016 gathering called for the the classic high-church tradition. remains the issue of Anglican unity in suspension of the Episcopal Church The Province of a context of irreconcilable differences from various representative Commun- Southern Africa that he about sexuality, Archbishop Welby said ion roles in response to its actions. Fol- leads is engaged in an in- in British GQ. lowing the 2017 meeting, the same ternal debate about sexu- “I am having to struggle to be faith- consequences now apply to the Scot- ality, and the differences ful to the tradition, faithful to the tish church. are deep. What happens scripture, to understand what the call From the time of the first Lambeth in Southern African will and will of God is in the 21st century Conference in 1867, Anglican interna- Makgoba be a portent for Angli- and to respond appropriately with an tional gatherings have always met canism elsewhere. answer for all people — not condemn- amid worries about unity. Of course, For Makgoba, the Anglican experi- ing them, whether I agree with them or the Primates’ Meeting is not a supreme ence can be likened to family relation- not,” Welby said in an interview with court and has no powers to overrule ships in which different viewpoints are Alastair Campbell, press secretary to the governing bodies of member inevitable. “I deliberately use the word former Prime Minister Tony Blair. churches of the Communion. family, because within any family there “Inherently, within myself, the The deeper question is the effective- will be some pulling left, some pulling things that seem to me to be absolutely ness of the various instruments of right, and different views,” he said in central are around faithfulness, stabil- Communion (the Primates’ Meeting, one of the briefings before the Pri- ity of relationships and loving relation- the Anglican Consultative Council, the mates’ Meeting on Oct. 2-6 in Canter- ships,” he added. Lambeth Conference, and the Office bury. “But we are committed to walk- “I am also aware — a view deeply of Archbishop of Canterbury). ing together in God.” held by tradition since long before All these came into their own as the The Primates’ Meeting was the first Christianity, within the Jewish tradi- churches emerged from a colonial past. since January 2016. Under the leader- tion — that marriage is understood in- The issue now is whether they are fit ship of Archbishop Justin Welby, a pat- variably as being between a man and a for purpose. The remaking of the An- tern has emerged in which the assem- woman. Or, in various times, a man glican Communion is a huge task that bled archbishops agree on the agenda and several women, if you go back to needs to begin with serious and sus- as the meeting begins. the Old Testament. tained theological reflection. The meeting included sessions on “I know that the Church around the mission and evangelism; reconciliation world is deeply divided on this in some hen Anglican primates meet and peace-building; climate change and places, including the Anglicans and Wthey are never entirely cut off the environment; and migration and other churches, not just us, and we are from events back home. As he took human trafficking. All these issues press — the vast majority of the Church is — part in the meeting’s closing press con- heavily on many member churches of deeply against gay sex.” ference in Canterbury, Archbishop the Anglican Communion. The primates attending the 2016 Jackson Ole Sapit of Kenya was acutely There is always a turnover of mem- gathering agreed to walk together, al- aware of violent protests back home re- bers. Sixteen new primates have taken though differences between them sulting in a shooting and use of tear office since 2016, among them the might mean walking at a distance. gas by police. Most Rev. Ezekiel Kondo of the newly They set up a task group to examine The mood was tense in Kenya as the created Province of Sudan. There were what was required to restore relation- nation prepared to reprise its presi- absentees: the primates of Nigeria and ships and rebuild trust within the dential election. The need for a re- Uganda announced they would not at- Communion, and that task group pro- peated vote prompted Archbishop tend because of their sharp disagree- vided a preliminary report at last Justin Welby to take the somewhat un- ment with other member churches in month’s meeting. With the recent deci- usual step of beginning a press confer- 4 THe LIVInG CHURCH • november 5, 2017 ence with prayer. with Muslim thinkers in a nation met with some of Welby’s staff. He said At the first Primates’ known for its persecution of Chris- there was a “legacy of failure” to pro- Meeting in Ely in 1979, tians. tect vulnerable people and care for sur- Archbishop Allen Johnston A new project was announced to vivors. of New Zealand found him- empower spouses of bishops from re- Welby refused to name persons or self working out how to re- source-poor settings. Archbishop Sapit places involved in cross-border inter- spond to the crash of a local knows the value of such assistance. He ventions. There was, however, a call for commercial airliner. Dur- was born in a remote part of Kenya a “season of repentance and renewal” Sapit ing the second Primates’ and orphaned at an early age. He was on this vexed issue. Meeting, cross-border military clashes the only member of his family to have The primates left it to Archbishop between two countries in the South- an education, which the development Welby to decide whether they will ern Cone of South America left the agency World Vision made possible. meet again between now and the Lam- primate of the area close to tears as he His wife, he said, had no education beth Conference in 2020. told the story. whatever, but when he became a John Martin This generation of primates repre- bishop, without any training she was sent areas of the world where there is thrust into leadership of church acute food insecurity, where Christian women’s work and “left to hold every- Confusion Continues minorities suffer persecution, where thing together” in his absences.