The culmination of three weeks' singing, dancing and costume-creation took centre-stage at the Lambeth conference Thursday night (August 6), as the opening (and only) night's performance of "Crowning Glory," a musical presented by members of the Spouses' Programme.
07 August 1998
The vote of the Lambeth Conference, Wednesday (August 5), affirming traditional views on homosexuality, has not silenced the voices of gay and lesbian advocates in the church.
07 August 1998
A Lambeth Conference resolution on international debt and economic justice approved Thursday (August 6) demands action by governments and banks, but also by churches.
07 August 1998
Ladies and Gentlemen, we are coming towards the end of a very busy, challenging, but I think extremely rewarding Lambeth Conference, and I am sure that, like me, you are looking forward to going home, going on holiday, and generally recovering a bit of normality
07 August 1998
Division in the Anglican Communion over homosexuality widened Wednesday when the Lambeth Conference adopted a resolution that includes a strong condemnation of homosexual relationships.
07 August 1998
As the Lambeth Conference draws to a close, one pre-Lambeth gathering of Afro-Anglican bishops from Africa, England, the West Indies and the United States appears to have borne definite fruit.
07 August 1998
"At the turn of the century, over half of all English children attended Sunday School. Today in Britain's Housing Developments only one young person in every 1,000 attends an Anglican Church," the Rev. Wallace Brown told the Spouses' Programme at the Lambeth Conference this week.
06 August 1998
Bishops in Section One addressing modern technology describe the heaven-and-hell nature of "this gift with a price"-its vastly different effects in different cultures-in their report released to the Lambeth Conference.
06 August 1998
In a session Archbishop of Canterbury George Carey called "difficult and painful," the Lambeth Conference approved a statement on sexuality Wednesday afternoon (August 5) that rejects homosexual practice as "incompatible with Scripture."
06 August 1998
The Lambeth Conference today approved the following resolution on sexuality by a vote of 526 in favor and 70 against, with 45 abstentions (italics indicate amendments):
05 August 1998