Report of Proceedings 2018 General Synod February Group of Sessions Volume 49, No.1 Officers of the General Synod Presidents The Archbishop of Canterbury The Archbishop of York Prolocutors of the Lower Houses of the Convocations Canterbury York The Revd Canon Simon Butler The Ven. Cherry Vann The House of Laity Chair Vice-Chair Canon Dr James Harrison Canon Elizabeth Paver Secretary General Mr William Nye LVO Clerk to the Synod Chief Legal Adviser & Registrar Dr Jacqui Philips Mr Stephen Slack Secretary to the House of Bishops Legislative Counsel Mr William Nye LVO Mr Christopher Packer Secretary to the House of Clergy Deputy Legal Adviser Mr Jonathan Neil-Smith The Revd Alexander McGregor Secretary to the House of Laity Mr Andrew Brown Officers of the Convocations Synodical Secretary of the Convocation of Canterbury Revd Stephen Trott Registrar Mr Stephen Slack Synodical Secretary of the Convocation of York The Revd Paul Benfield Registrar Ms Caroline Mockford Transcribed by AUSCRIPT LIMITED Central Court, Suite 303, 25 Southampton Buildings, London WC2A 1AL Tel No: 0330 100 5223 Email: [email protected] Contents INTRODUCTIONS AND WELCOMES ....................................................................... 1 REPORT BY THE BUSINESS COMMITTEE (GS 2079) ........................................... 2 DISCERNING IN OBEDIENCE: A THEOLOGICAL REVIEW OF THE CROWN NOMINATIONS COMMISSION (GS 2080 AND GS MISC 1171) ............................ 11 DISCERNING IN OBEDIENCE: A THEOLOGICAL REVIEW OF THE CROWN NOMINATIONS COMMISSION (GS 2080) .............................................................. 17 QUESTIONS ............................................................................................................ 31 ADDRESS BY INVITED SPEAKER FROM A MEMBER CHURCH OF THE ANGLICAN COMMUNION ....................................................................................... 90 COMPANION LINKS AND THE ANGLICAN COMMUNION (GS 2081) ................... 95 APPOINTMENT OF THE CHAIR OF THE APPOINTMENTS COMMITTEE (GS 2082) ...................................................................................................................... 109 FOOD WASTAGE (GS 2077A AND GS 2077B) .................................................... 111 PRESIDENTIAL ADDRESS ................................................................................... 126 AMENDING CANON NO. 36 (GS 2029D) .............................................................. 132 AMENDING CANON NO. 37 (GS 2029DD) ........................................................... 133 DRAFT ECUMENICAL RELATIONS MEASURE (GS 2046A) ............................... 133 DRAFT ECUMENICAL RELATIONS MEASURE (GS 2046Y) – REVISION STAGE ................................................................................................................... 137 DRAFT AMENDING CANON NO. 38 (GS 2047A) ................................................. 141 DRAFT AMENDING CANON NO. 38 (GS 2047Y) – REVISION STAGE ............... 141 DRAFT CHURCH OF ENGLAND (MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS) MEASURE (GS 2064A AND GS 2064Y) .................................................................................. 142 ADDRESS BY INVITED SPEAKERS FROM THE METHODIST CHURCH ........... 170 MISSION AND MINISTRY IN COVENANT (GS 2086) ........................................... 174 SAFEGUARDING: PRESENTATION ON NATIONAL DEVELOPMENTS AND ON THE CHURCH OF ENGLAND’S PREPARATION FOR THE INDEPENDENT INQUIRY INTO INSTITUTIONAL CHILD SEXUAL ABUSE (IICSA) (GS MISC 1172 AND GS MISC 1173) ................................................................... 196 RELIGIOUS COMMUNITIES (GS 2087) ................................................................ 216 DIGITAL EVANGELISM (GS MISC 1174) .............................................................. 228 VALUING PEOPLE WITH DOWN’S SYNDROME (GS 2088) ............................... 240 i Full Synod: First Day Thursday 8 February 2018 THE CHAIR The Archbishop of Canterbury (Most Revd and Rt Hon Justin Welby) took the Chair at 1.30 pm WORSHIP Revd Michael Gisbourne (Chaplain to the General Synod) led the Synod in an act of worship. ITEM 1 INTRODUCTIONS AND WELCOMES The Chair: Once again a very warm welcome to all and thank you for the journey you have made and the time you have given. There are a number of welcomes to new members and a couple of other things. First of all, I think for the first time, we are blessed with the presence of Primates of the Anglican Communion to join with us and observe our business and take part at various moments. I am going to call them out and ask them to stand and may we welcome them warmly at the end. There are just three and they are: Archbishop Winston Halapua, one of the three Primates of New Zealand, and the Archbishop of Polynesia, the largest Province in the world, which is about 99% sea; Archbishop Thabo Makgoba, the Archbishop of Southern Africa, which includes Mozambique, Angola and various other places; and Bishop Humphrey Peters, Bishop of Peshawar and Moderator of the Church of Pakistan. May we please welcome them? They all have extraordinary stories, you will find, in the tea breaks. It is very rewarding to spend time with them. Archbishop Winston lives in an area where climate change is not a theory but a lived reality. Bishop Humphrey Peters comes from one of the most persecuted Churches on the face of the planet. Archbishop Thabo is leading the Design Group for the Lambeth Conference. He has lived through and been a major participant in the extraordinary experience of transformation in South Africa. It is a great privilege to have them. Secondly, I do not know if the Bishop of Norwich is here, but I think we are going to record this anyway. I do not think he is. Either that or he is keeping his head very down. In just under two weeks Bishop Graham Jones will celebrate on the Feast of St Polycarp - an interesting combination - the 25th anniversary of his consecration as a bishop. I hope we can indicate our thanks to him now and we can congratulate him when we see him. I would very much like to welcome new members since our last meeting. I wonder if they would be so kind, if it is convenient to them and they are comfortably able to do so, to stand or to wave, and we will greet them all with applause at the end of the list. It is quite a long list. The Rt Revd Tim Thornton replacing the Rt Revd Nigel Stock; the Very Revd Jane Hedges replacing the Very Revd Dr Frances Ward; the Ven. Joanne Kelly-Moore replacing the Ven. 1 Philip Down; the Revd Canon Cameron Butland replacing the Revd David Craven; the Revd Brenda Wallace replacing the Revd Jonathan MacNeany; the Revd David Tolhurst replacing the Revd Dr Miranda Threlfall-Holmes; the Revd Prebendary Cate Edmunds replacing the Revd Canon Andrew Godsall; the Revd Prebendary Karl Freeman replacing the Revd Canon Anna Norman-Walker; the Revd Canon Sir George Newton replacing the Revd Canon Martyn Neale; the Revd Canon Paul Rattigan replacing the Revd Amanda Fairclough; the Revd Sally Hitchiner replacing the Revd Canon Phillipa Boardman; the Revd Anne Stevens replacing the Revd Andrew Foreshew-Cain; the Revd Francis Orr-Ewing replacing the Revd Kate Stacey; the Revd Beverley Hollins replacing the now Rt Revd Dr Guli Francis-Dehqani; the Revd Rachel Wilson replacing the Revd Lusa Nsenga Ngoy; the Revd Andrew Moughtin-Mumby replacing the Revd Canon Dr Stephen Hance; Mr Richard Morgan replacing Mrs Helen Lamb; Mr Stephen Hofmeyr replacing Mrs Anne Martin; the Revd Canon Dr James Walters replacing the Revd Dr Hannah Cleugh; the Revd Dr Philip Plyming replacing the Revd Duncan Dormor; Loretta Minghella replacing Sir Andreas Whittam-Smith; Miss Annika Mathews replacing Mrs Leah Bell. May we greet them all. We welcome also very much the Rt Revd Anthony Rayfield, Bishop of Swindon, attending during the vacancy in the See of Bristol. You are most welcome. Bishop Lee has speaking rights but does not have voting rights. That concludes our introductions and welcomes and, accordingly, I now hand over to the Chair of our first debate. THE CHAIR Ven. Pete Spiers (Liverpool) took the Chair at 1.47 pm ITEM 2 REPORT BY THE BUSINESS COMMITTEE (GS 2079) The Chair: We come now to Item 2 which is a Report by the Business Committee. For this you will need GS 2079. I am going to ask the Chair of the Business Committee, the Revd Canon Sue Booys, to come and speak to it. She has up to 10 minutes. Revd Canon Sue Booys (Oxford): I beg to move ‘That the Synod do take note of this Report.’ Friends, welcome to the February group of sessions. We are meeting at a slightly unaccustomed time for a London Synod and I want to thank in advance those of you who find staying until Saturday more difficult. We are meeting like this for those who are not here, because we hope that younger lay people may be encouraged to stand for election if Synod meets over fewer working days. The Business Committee would welcome hearing your feedback on this trial after the Synod. A welcome new feature of this Synod is the presence of our Anglican Communion guests whom Archbishop Justin has already greeted. It is really good to be reminded of our wider context in a similar way to the broader understanding that our Ecumenical Representatives bring us. We look forward to hearing from them tomorrow morning. 2 I hope you have noticed that GS 2079, the Report of the Business Committee, has a very slightly different format for this group of sessions. We have tried to make it slightly more-user friendly and we hope that you will use it as your ‘go