Liturgical churches many times are like older couples. They get set in their ways, delight in family, home and settling in with old friends in the comfort zones of familiarity. Mission, evangelism and discipling? We've been there, done that and got the shirt. Anyway that's why we hired a clergyman. As long as I have my Sunday service and a good Christmas and Easter experience I'm satisfied. What I believe is personal. I don't want to impose that on others.

Why? The answer may be stated in a sentence. The very assembling of the Conference at the appointed time (ten years after the last) comes within (and maybe towards the end of) what is usually called "The Windsor Process:" therefore, the Lambeth Conference of 2008 is inevitably and inextricably bound up with this "Process" and this is problematic for many bishops.

On the one hand, the British were losing confidence in the Christian vision which underlay most of the achievements and values of the culture and, on the other, they sought to accommodate the newer arrivals on the basis of a novel philosophy of "multiculturalism".

This required that people should be facilitated in living as separate communities, continuing to communicate in their own languages and having minimum need for building healthy relationships with the majority.

I shall begin with Holy Matrimony and note that what is called Christian Marriage today (within the doctrine and place of the Canons of TEC and its Prayer Book of 1979) is a denial of Holy Matrimony. Then I shall move to the doctrine of the Church and note that alien principles have invaded and become a necessary part of the present way of describing and being the Church.

Matrimony