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Church leaders look to map out the future 4th November 2003 Two members of the Anglican Church in Aotearoa, New Zealand and Polynesia, are part of Anglican Church commission to map a way forward for the various parts of the Anglican Church to continue in communion following the consecration of Canon Gene Robinson in the USA. Dr Rowan Williams, Archbishop of Canterbury announced that the Most Revd John Paterson, Primate of Aotearoa, New Zealand & Polynesia, and Chairman of the Anglican Consultative Council (ACC) and Dr Jenny Te Paa, Principal of St John the Evangelist’s College, Auckland, would join other prominent Anglicans to explore how the church could work together given the divisions over homosexuality. The commission would not explore sexuality but rather how each part of the church could work together. This work would follow on from the 1998 Lambeth statement which called on the church "to listen to the experience of homosexual persons, and to assure them that they are loved by God and that all baptised, believing and faithful persons, regardless of sexual orientation, are full members of the Body of Christ"; and its acknowledgement of the need for ongoing study on questions of human sexuality. Website: Anglican Church in Aotearoa, New Zealand and Polynesia |
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