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• Anglican Communion Links
• The Primates Meeting in Tanzania
• The Windsor Report
• Anglican Humor

Anglican Communion Links

• Website of the worldwide Anglican Communion

• Anglican Communion News Service

• Anglican Cycle of Prayer
• Anglican Listening and Learning
• Anglicans Online
  Resources for prayers, hymns, humor, news.... Updated every Sunday.
• Archbishop of Canterbury
• Louie Crew's Anglican Links
  From the website of Louie Crew, this is a comprehensive resource for all Episcopalians
• The Windsor Report
  Report from Lambeth, October 18, 2004 and related links

The Primates Meeting in Tanzania

• Primates Meeting 2007 Communiqué
  • Web page - Episcopal Life Online
  • Download PDF - Anglican Communion News Service
• Anglican Covenant Draft prepared by Covenant Design Group
• Primates Meeting Photo Gallery
• Episcopal Life Online (ELO)
  • Primates Meeting Index of Articles
  • "A Season of Fasting"
    Presiding Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori's statement to the Church
  • Audio interview with Presiding Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori
    (from London as she returned from Tanzania)
  • ENS story with initial comments from Jefferts Schori
  • Episcopal Groups React to Communiqué
• Statement by the Archbishop of Canterbury
• EpiScope - Schedule of Recommendations
• Statements issued by other groups
  • Integrity USA
  • Inclusive Church
  • Combined groups of Inclusive Church, Changing Attitude England and Changing Attitude Nigeria
  • Via Media USA (http://www.viamediausa.org).
  • Daily Episcopalian
    Contains articles/links to: 
    • "Why the Anglican Communion Matters"
      by Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams
    • Bishop John Bryson Chane's statement on the Primates Meeting (Bishop of 
      Washington)
    • A Personal Reflection from The Primus of Scotland on the meeting of Anglican Primates in Dar es Salaam
    • Bishop Steven Charleston's Response to the Tanzania Primates Communique
    • "To Everything There is a Season", Bishop Barry Beisner's response (Bishop of Northern California)
    • The Rt. Rev. James L. Jelinek's response (Bishop of Minnesota)
  • Titus One Nine
  • Terry Mattingly On Religion

The Windsor Report

• The Windsor Report
  The Anglican Communion's official web page for the report issued from Lambeth, October 18, 2004
• The report:  http://www.anglicancommunion.org/windsor2004/

• The Panama Declaration
  Response of Latin American and Carribbean bishops to the divisions in the Anglican Communtion
• "To Set Our Hope on Christ" (PDF)
  The Episcopal Church's response to paragraph 135 of the Windsor Report
• Report of the Special Commission on the Episcopal Church and the Anglican Communion (PDF)
• From the Presiding Bishop: A Word to the Church
• Episcopal News Service Report
  Includes links to videos
• The Middle Way
  A congregational resource from Episcopal Divinity School
• New York Time Article
  "The Church is Rebuked"
• BBC News Article
• Alternative View from the World Wide Wib (sic)
  We all need to maintain a sense of humor.

Other response possibilities

1. Offer forums and classes that are built around dialogue not debate. Always start with prayer and Bible study. The Serendipity Bible, and others like it, are good sources for "getting on board" questions and Bible passages that deal with conflict.  I think "The Spiritual Formation Bible" is another good choice for this...

2. Talk with the adult leaders of your youth groups so that they too are offering prayer, Bible study and dialogue on the issues, including the question, "What are the adults so wound up about?"! (Can anyone answer that one?!)

3. Offer classes that study Anglicanism. For example:

• In the New Church's Teaching Series: "Anglican Vision"; "Christian Social Witness"; "Opening the Bible"; "Opening the Prayer Book"; "Horizons of Mission". www.cowley.org  
• John Westerhoff's book "A People Called Episcopalians". Morehouse Publishing. 
• All the confirmation books from Morehouse Publishing (www.morehousegroup.com)
• The video series "The Story of Anglicanism" and "The Story of the Episcopal Church" -- available in El Camino Real's Resource Center at St. Thomas, Sunnyvale -- check the online catalog http://66.80.1.30/ )

4. Two good scholarly books for leaders are: A History of The Episcopal Church by Robert Prichard (Morehouse)and The Study of Anglicanism, edited by Stephen Sykes and John Booty (SPCK/Fortress Press). In addition, remember that EFM has some good chapters on Anglicanism/EC and its development.

5. Design classes for newcomers and adult confirmands with a serious conversation about the contents of our Catechism (found in the back of your prayer books, or published as booklets by Church Publishing Inc.(www.churchpublishing.org).  Another good resource is from the Episcopal Church Office of Government Relations (800-228-0515) "Engage God’s Mission: Policy for Action" – the Social Policies of the Episcopal Church U.S.A."   Those two documents side-by-side do a very good job of answering the question "What, exactly, do Episcopalians believe?"

A more thorough understanding of what and how we believe causes fewer people to be shocked, dismayed, and storm away when they discover that we have held stances on a variety of issues for decades with which they are not in agreement (choice, handguns, euthanasia, Israel, fair trade, immigration, etc.)  Amen!  When we first entered this particular round of in-fighting, it occurred to me that we Episcopalians (in general) teach Biblical literacy to our members somewhat like parents (in general) teach sex to their teenagers -- we hold our breath, hope they don't ask very hard questions, and wonder why everything goes astray when their friends teach them what they've heard!  Let's get serious friends about our traditional ways of discerning, learning, discovering, conversing!  (Another plug for the Epiphany Packets which might be on your shelves and are definitely in the Resource Center!  On sex, poverty, ethics, racism, justice, the Episcopal church, children, and other important social issues viewed from the perspective of Anglican tradition)

Make a daily check of the news postings from the Presiding Bishop and others. www.episcopalchurch.org/ens (you can subscribe to this "Episcopal News Service" for sometimes-daily emails)
 
Thanks to Carolyn Chilton, NAECED President, for the above recap.

Anglican Humor

• Ship of Fools
• The Wibsite