From the Lambeth Conference 1998 to the Lambeth Conference 2008 and Beyond

The aim of this book is threefold:

- to provide a brief Who's Who and What's What on the recent history of sexual orientation and Anglicanism;

- to give voice to gay and lesbian people from around the Anglican world;

- to reflect on the present crisis and offer new possibilities for learning from areas such as human rights legislation, the African concept of ubuntu and conflict resolution in Bosnia.

All of the contributors to this book are committed Anglicans. Most of them were attracted to the Anglican Church because of its inclusive nature and its careful sifting of scripture, tradition and reason.

Many people think that Anglicans should be discussing more important issues than sexuality, for example, issues of conflict and justice. The Church's right to speak about injustice is negated by the lack of justice it shows to a significant proportion of its adherents who are gay and lesbian. It is a justice issue because sexual orientation is biological in nature; it is not a choice. Gay and lesbian people have exactly the same rights and responsibilities concerning the expression of their sexuality as heterosexual people. The fullness of life that Christ came to bring includes our sexuality.

List of Contributors:

Edwin Arrison, South African Anglican priest and social entrepreneur

Peter Francis, Warden of St Deinol's Library in North Wales

Savitri Hensman, voluntary health and social care worker, writer on Christianity and social justice

Michael Hopkins, Episcopal priest in Rochester, New York, former President of Integrity USA

Michael Ingham, Bishop of the Diocese of New Westminster in the Anglican Church of Canada

Richard Kirker, Chief Executive of the Lesbian and Gay Christian Movement, ordained deacon in the Church of England

Davis Mac-Iyalla, leader of Changing Attitudes Nigeria

Donn Mitchell, lay leader in the Diocese of New York, editor of The Anglican Examiner

Martyn Percy, Principal of Ripon College, Cuddesdon

Muriel Porter, member of the Standing Committee and Doctrine Commission of the Australian General Synod

Donald Reeves, former Rector of St James' Piccadilly, London, founder and director of Soul of Europe, which is committed to working for reconciliation in the Balkans

Mario Ribas, priest from the Anglican Church of Brazil, senior reacher at the African Gender Institute, University of Cape Town

Simon Sarmiento, blogger at Thinking Anglicans

Andrew Village, Senior Lecturer in Practical and Empirical Theology at York St John University.

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