Episode Description
What happened at the Anglican Consultative Council meeting in Belfast, and why does it matter?
In July, our editor, Mark Michael, returned from a gathering of Anglicans that happens every three years: a meeting of the Anglican Consultative Council (ACC). This year’s was June 27- July 5, in Belfast, Northern Ireland, and also marked the first 100 days or so of Archbishop Sarah Mullally’s ministry as Archbishop of Canterbury.
We pulled together a special episode of the newsdesk to talk about what Mark brought back from this international Communion reunion, who was there, what people were hoping for, and what came of it.
We’ll particularly discuss the reception and discussion of a document from the InterAnglican Standing Commission on Unity, Faith, and Order, known as the Nairobi-Cairo Proposals (NCPs).
Two principal proposals in the NCPs were hotly debated at the Anglican Consultative Council meeting: a proposal to limit the powers of the Archbishop of Canterbury and share them among other primates, and proposal to removing communion with the See of Canterbury as a primary marker of Anglican identity.
Special thanks to Mark Michael, our editor, and the Matthew Olver, our executive director and publisher, who joined me at the newsdesk.
In our bonus segment, we go from the Communion gathering to vestry meeting. How do you nurture vestry members in their capacity as spiritual leaders? Retired Episcopal priest and retreat facilitator, the Rev. Dr. Marc Smith, has some tips.
From this episode
Podcast episodes:
Newsdesk on developments in Gafcon’s Global Anglican Communion
Questions for Gafcon (Winner of Episcopal Communicators Polly Bond Award)
Websites & documents:
Inter-Anglican Standing Commission on Unity, Faith and Order
Anglican Consultative Council Standing Committee Resolution
Statement from Global South Fellowship of Anglican Churches
Living Church articles:
Mullally Calls ACC to Deepened Hope and Trust
Anglicans Challenged to Plant 1 Million Churches
ACC Members Walk in Derry’s Paths of Peace
ACC Members Doubtful About Nairobi-Cairo Proposals
Mullally on Nairobi-Cairo Proposals: ‘We’re Not There Yet’
ACC Debates Nairobi-Cairo Proposals, Elects Leaders
Archbishop Mullally: The First 100 Days
From the bonus
Vestry Reflections: Cultivating Spiritual Growth in Church Leaders
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