The Anglican Communion
The MCU opposes the proposed Draft Anglican Covenant and urges its rejection.
Jonathan Clatworthy, Paul Bagshaw and John Saxbee, Bishop of Lincoln, have prepared a detailed response to The Draft Anglican Covenant on behalf of the MCU.
Details, the Response and summaries are here
An earlier submission to the Anglican Communion Office is here. This was a response to the consultation document Towards and Anglican Covenant.
The MCU responds to The Listening Process Study Guide
Jonathan Clatworthy has prepared the MCU response to the Study Guide on listening to the experience of Gay and lesbian Christians which the Anglican Communion office has produced for the 2008 Lambeth Conference. The submission, summaries, and links to the process are here.MCU is an ecumenical organization and welcomes members of all traditions.
Its roots are in the Church of England and the Anglican Communion and this is still reflected in its ethos and membership. We are concerned with the parish, with General Synod, with the consecration of women and with the liberal theological tradition in the church.
We share the anxiety of many in the Anglican Communion about its future. The MCU is committed to a Church which is open, inclusive, and welcoming to all, a point made by the Right Reverend Paul Colton, Bishop of Cork in a recent address to his Diocesan Synod.
No-one can miss the storm clouds growing ever more threatening. Jonathan Clatworthy asks whether a two-tier church is ever acceptable, and muses on whether the Church should split, a topic also addressed by Gill Cooke and Alan Sheard here.
The Anglican Rose and Compass
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The three poisons:
craving,
hatred,
ignorance.
Thomas Merton
The Asian Journals of Thomas Merton
Lyn Ferraby objects to the use of legislation concerning women priests to enable parishes to come under the wing of flying bishops because of their views on homosexuality here.
The manner in which the church responds to issues of sexuality - and its capacity to disagree and stay together - was the theme of MCU's submission to the Eames Commission which produced the Windsor Report. MCU responded to the Windsor Report with a book edited by Jonathan Clatworthy and Simon Taylor. The book can be purchased here, its conclusion is here.
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