Sustaining common life in the Anglican Communion

A demanding aspect of the Archbishop's role as focus of unity is his capacity to encourage conversation and resolution where there is disagreement between different parts of the Communion. A central feature of this is currently the deep-rooted dispute over human sexuality and the appropriate limits of diversity within the Anglican Communion. This controversial area and its outworking through the 2004 Windsor Report have been very much to the fore over recent years. With a view to strengthening the ways in which the Communion's member churches relate to each other, the Archbishop has given strong support to the proposal (emerging from the Windsor Report) for an Anglican Covenant.  After much work and consideration across the Anglican Communion, the Anglican Consultative Council has now finalized the text and offered the Covenant for adoption to the member churches.

Alongside this, the Archbishop supports the Continuing Indaba project, a biblically-based and mission-focused project designed to develop and intensify relationships within the Anglican Communion by drawing on cultural models of consensus building for mutual creative action.  For more information on Continuing Indaba, see here.

Recent items relating to Anglican Covenant, Windsor Process and Continuing Indaba are shown below: