None of us will need any persuading that the recent appointment of Canon Jeffrey John as Bishop of Reading has proved a controversial and challenging one.
23 June 2003
On Corpus Christi, as the Church remembers with thanksgiving the institution of Holy Communion, it's a good time to remind ourselves that within our Christian vocation there is a call to community, a sharing of one bread, one cup, and to see how that fits with the world as it is.
19 June 2003
A Communiqué of the International Anglican Roman Catholic Commission for Unity and Mission, meeting in Northern Ireland, June 10th - 14th 2003
17 June 2003
Arrangements are well under way for the Al Azhar-Anglican Communion Dialogue which will take place in New York 10-11 September 2003.
16 June 2003
Dr Rowan Williams has today (Wednesday 11 June) delivered his first major address on inter faith relations since becoming Archbishop of Canterbury.
11 June 2003
The 29th General Synod of the Episcopal Anglican Church of Brazil met from 29 May - 1 June in the Bethany Village Retreat House, in Porto Alegre.
09 June 2003
The Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr Rowan Williams, has expressed his sadness and disquiet at the move by the diocese of New Westminster in the Anglican Church of Canada to authorise services of blessings for same-sex unions in some parishes.
29 May 2003
On Sunday 1 June the worldwide Anglican Communion is asked to observe Anglican Communications Sunday and to pray for the communication of the Gospel to all the world.
28 May 2003
We met as Primates of the Anglican Communion in Gramado, Southern Brazil from 19th to 26th May 2003, at the invitation of the Igreja Episcopal Anglicana do Brasil, to bring before God our common life as the Anglican Communion and to take counsel together on the life of our churches.
27 May 2003
What is it that Jesus Christ gives us? And what is it that we are to give to the world? Jesus answers us in today's gospel, in the clearest possible way. He gives us glory; and what we are given, we must share. Certainly, he gives us forgiveness, life, confidence, the promise of eternal rest in God.
25 May 2003