Fire from a paschal candle lit one small taper, and the light spread from that to another, and yet another, until the gloom in the darkened hall was brightened by their glow
21 July 1998
The stories of a widow who is expected to marry the brother of her husband even though he has AIDS, Chinese children left abandoned in an orphanage and the pain of a man watching the suffering of his dying wife are all in the conference spotlight today.
21 July 1998
With smiles, song and a soft stamping of bare feet, a dozen bishops' wives escorted one of "their own"-a bishop's husband-from the stage in the spouses' tent yesterday.
21 July 1998
After all the planning of the last few years it was wonderful for me to stand in the Cathedral yesterday morning and to be able to say with you all 'Yes, our 13th Lambeth Conference is now under way'
20 July 1998
Archbishop George Carey brought the Lambeth Conference to its feet with a call for "a more radical discipleship shaped by God's transforming power" in his presidential address Monday before more than 1,000 bishops and spouses gathered in the two plenary halls.
20 July 1998
The first plenary session of the Lambeth Conference, scheduled for 11:30 a.m. Tuesday (July 21) in the two main plenary halls, will focus on "The Bible, the World, and the Church," helping to establish the central role scripture will play in the conference.
20 July 1998
Eileen Carey, wife of the Archbishop of Canterbury, has interviewed 21 spouses of Anglican bishops from all over the world about what it is like to be married to a bishop. These interviews are published for the first time in the book The Bishop and I.
20 July 1998
Over 600 bishops' spouses gathered for the opening service for the Spouses' Programme on the evening of July 19. The spouses were welcomed by Eileen Carey, wife of Archbishop of Canterbury George Carey, who stressed the planners' hope that the spouses find the conference to be an opportunity for fellowship and for deepening their faith commitments.
20 July 1998
With gold and blue banners snapping in the breeze, school children waving and the Canterbury Cathedral's 14-bell peal tolling, the 13th Lambeth Conference officially opened Sunday morning as 750 cassock-clad bishops processed into the cathedral to celebrate the first Eucharist of their three-week gathering.
19 July 1998
I express my deepest appreciation to his Grace, the Archbishop of Canterbury, for giving me this rare and awesome honour of preaching at this Opening Service of Lambeth 1998
19 July 1998