Lambeth warning from Bishop of Manchester

THIS YEAR'S Lambeth Conference would be acting 'irresponsibly' if it tried to avoid issues such as homosexuality that are threatening schism in the Anglican Communion, a leading bishop has declared.

The warning comes from the Rt Rev Nigel McCulloch, Bishop of Manchester. And the 65-year-old church leader has also pointedly told his clergy: let me know before you invite any visiting bishop to your parish.

The comment and the enjoinder come in an article headed "Walking the Lambeth way" in the January issue of Crux, the magazine of the Manchester diocese.

In it, Bishop McCulloch discloses that he was one of the first bishops to say yes to the Archbishop of Canterbury's invitation to attend the once-a decade Lambeth Conference, and notes: "I am sorry some bishops are still threatening to stay away."

Bishop McCulloch says: "The Anglican Communion is a family. The Christian pattern for family life - for which the church and especially its bishops should be a model - is that, however deep family differences are, we (of all people) ought to be following the New Testament pattern of meeting together to pray, to learn, to eat and to share." Read more
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