As Congress looks, once again, at the issue of development in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, we will hear many of the familiar arguments, pro and con. The debate is beginning to have a ritual flavor to it. But in our present context--high gas prices in the run up to a tight presidential election--it seems likely that the words and wedges will be even more harsh than usual.
22 June 2004
Archbishop of Canterbury, the Most Revd Rowan Williams
Internationalism and Beyond
Speech on the occasion of a fund raising dinner for the Anglican Observer to the United Nations.
19 June 2004
The great "House of Prayer for All People" in the US capital, the Episcopal Cathedral of SS Peter and Paul, Mount St Alban, Washington, DC, will welcome world leaders for the funeral of Ronald Wilson Reagan. The service will follow much of the rite from the Book of Common Prayer 1979. The order of service can be found at:
http://www.cathedral.org/cathedral/worship/reaganservice.shtml11 June 2004
Retired South African Archbishop Desmond Tutu will preach at a July 13 service that will commemorate Archbishop Ted Scott, the 10th Primate of the Anglican Church of Canada, who was killed in a car accident last month.
07 June 2004
The Anglican Church of Canada has deferred a decision on the blessing of same-sex unions for another three years to allow a review by the Primate's Theological Commission
03 June 2004
Deeply divided over liberalizing church attitudes toward homosexuals, Canadian Anglicans meeting at their triennial governing convention here voted to defer a decision on whether gay relationships should be blessed in church
03 June 2004
The Diocese of Northern Argentina of the Province of the Southern Cone is to elect a new bishop after the retirement of the current incumbent after 30 years of service.
02 June 2004
Canadian Anglicans have elected their 12th Primate. On the fourth ballot, more than 300 members of General Synod, the church's chief governing and legislative body, elected the Most Revd Andrew Hutchison, the Archbishop of Montreal
01 June 2004
Toronto - the Rt Revd Victoria Matthews of the diocese of Edmonton has announced that she will withdraw her name from the list of candidates for election to the office of Primate of the Anglican Church of Canada.
21 May 2004
Seattle - The Diocese of Olympia, the Episcopal Church in western Washington, today elected the Revd Bavi Edna "Nedi" Rivera as its bishop suffragan making her the first Hispanic woman bishop and only the 12th woman bishop in the history of the denomination.
17 May 2004