The role of the Chairman of any Finance Committee is to be the ultimate pessimist, however I want to say that at the present time our finances are in a reasonable state, even given that many provinces are unable for various reasons to pay their requested contributions in full," Archbishop Robin Eames said
18 September 1999
"Scripture has always taken on the face into which it has been translated. . . We have had a Celtic text, a Gothic text, and an English text. When are we going to have an African text?" asked the Revd Dr John Pobee in his address on the "Interpretation of Scripture" to the 11th meeting of the Anglican Consultative Council in Dundee Scotland.
18 September 1999
In a close vote (33 for, 28 against) on the make-up of the Anglican Consultative Council, members decided not to make any changes to present arrangements.
17 September 1999
The calling of the Church is "to live the end time in the mean time, to be a coming attraction." stated Bishop Mark Dyer is his theological introduction to the far-reaching and influential report on Anglican identity and authority known as" The Virginia Report."
17 September 1999
In keeping with the best tradition of the Chair's statement at the beginning of the ACC meeting my address is going to be short, at least compared to the length of a normal sermon in Tanzania.
17 September 1999
"I am proud to be your servant, and I want to extend you a warm welcome, karibu sana! I appeal to you to speak freely and openly at this meeting.
16 September 1999
It is again with a sense of great privilege and rejoicing that I stand before you as the Secretary General of the Anglican Communion to share with you, the members of the Anglican Consultative Council, where we are at this moment as a world-wide Communion of churches as scenes of our global family pass in front of your eyes.
16 September 1999
As President, I welcome you all to this 11th meeting of the Anglican Consultative Council. On your behalf, I would like to thank the Primus of the Scottish Episcopal Church, Bishop Richard Holloway; Bishop Neville Chamberlain, all those in the local Church and the national Church who have been involved in the preparations
15 September 1999
"The Church has the impossible task of being an organisation, with an unavoidable power structure, that exists to preserve the memory of one whose mission was to oppose the processes and sacrifices of power, because they are almost always exercised at the cost of the individual," the Most Rev Richard Holloway, Primus of the Scottish Episcopal Church, said
15 September 1999
In an address that gave a challenge to the prevailing views of many Anglicans, the Most Rev George Carey, the Archbishop of Canterbury, indicated that 'diversity' and 'comprehensiveness' are not, in his view, the defining characteristics of Anglicanism.
15 September 1999