Let us proclaim our full humanity - It is a great honour for me to have the privilege of leading the work of Section One of our conference - Called to Full Humanity. I have come from Cape Town, the most beautiful city in the world - and I will tolerate no argument about that - at the southernmost tip of the continent of Africa.
25 July 1998
Lambeth Conference has never been a low-cost undertaking. This time, however, at an estimated per person cost of about £2,150 (US$4,000), organizers recognized that serious fundraising help would be necessary or many bishops would be unable to attend.
24 July 1998
Twenty-eight thousand children die each day from largely preventable diseases. Every minute of every day eight babies die following pregnancy and one woman dies from pregnancy-related complications.
24 July 1998
International debt is an issue arousing passion and concern among Lambeth bishops.
24 July 1998
"Why are we suffering so much?" asked an old woman who lives in poverty in rural Zambia.
24 July 1998
More than 50 people attended a reception and program Thursday night (July 23) to welcome the three Lutheran bishops from Scandinavia who for the first time are members of the Lambeth Conference.
24 July 1998
Lambeth Conference planners are working hard to avoid a final-week logjam of resolutions when the bishops emerge from their closed section meetings to consider resolutions in plenary sessions.
23 July 1998
Of all the souvenirs, memories and reports of the Lambeth Conference that Anglican bishops will take home, there is one that is most likely to be displayed on a wall in the diocesan office for all to see.
23 July 1998
In the Senate Building, an octagonal two-story structure on the University of Kent central campus, the Lambeth Conference has established a sacred place for prayer, meditation, and counseling. A sign on the door declares: "Sacred Place. All most welcome. Prayer, silence, rest, reflect."
23 July 1998
The voices of Anglicans speaking out of personal pain quickly brought the Lambeth Conference plenary on making moral decisions out of the realm of theory. Two presentations and a video offered stark stories of very human struggles.
23 July 1998