Ancient texts of the Bible were interpreted through the modern medium of video, the old art of the drama, and the age-old art of teaching in the first plenary session of the Lambeth Conference held Tuesday (July 21).
21 July 1998
A dramatic presentation in a plenary session today produced its own drama when the soon to be enthroned bishop of Jerusalem walked out in protest over language that he felt slighted Palestinian interests in the Holy Land.
21 July 1998
A top official of the Roman Catholic church has offered a positive but cautionary assessment of the relationship between the Anglican and Roman Catholic churches, according to ecumenical consultants assisting at the Lambeth Conference.
21 July 1998
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
Seasonal floods reported in Bangladesh may threaten the livelihoods of farmers in his diocese, Bishop Michael Baroi of the Diocese of Kushtia in the United Church of Bangladesh said
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