Continuing Indaba Project News
Chinese proverbs offered a Hong Kong-based group some helpful insights into ways Anglicans might best talk and work through their differences.
"Jesus Christ is the standard for discerning the path between authentic cultural expression and flawed syncretism, between ensuring we do not quench the Spirit and yet properly testing what we believe may be the Spirit's leading," said Archbishop Thabo Makgoba, Anglican Archbishop of Cape Town and Metropolitan of the Anglican Church of Southern Africa.
Alexandria, VA– The Center for Anglican Communion Studies (CACS) at Virginia Theological Seminary hosted one of the Anglican Communion’s Resource Hubs this week as part of the Archbishop of Canterbury, Rowan Williams’, Continuing Indaba project. Indaba, a Zulu term used to describe a meeting for purposeful discussion among equals, was adopted by Williams prior to the 2008 Lambeth Conference to describe a move away from traditional plenary meetings and voting on formal resolutions.
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The arrival of Continuing Indaba on the Internet as part of the Anglican Communion web site makes visible the preparatory work already in hand for the series of pilot conversations between dioceses from different parts of the Communion to take place during 2010 and 2011.
“It came as a surprise to find myself in a room with people gifted in all areas,” said Stuart Burns, Head of the School for Ministry in the Leicester Diocese, on the first meeting of the UK and Ireland Resource Hub for the Continuing Indaba Project.
"People came with lots of fear, apprehension and pessimism about the usefulness and outcomes of an Indaba consultation," said Bishop Pradeep Kumar Samantaroy of Amritsar, convenor of a meeting in Delhi in March 2010 in preparation for the Continuing Indaba project.
Codrington College, Barbados, which is the oldest dedicated Anglican theological College in the Western Hemisphere and serves the Province of the West Indies, hosted a Theological Hub meeting for the Continuing Indaba project from the 23rd to the 25th March 2010.
Transfiguration and inspiration
The College of the Transfiguration, Grahamstown, in South Africa’s Eastern Cape, has been a centre of study and support for the Anglican Church for nearly eighty years, and it was here that seventeen theologians and church leaders met in November 2009 to work on resources for the first formal conversations of the Continuing Indaba project.
“In the Anglican Church, the different groups seem to be in flight. Flight in this case is seen as trying to escape the problem. However, Hagar’s flight leads her into a situation of listening to God and also reflecting on the issues at stake.”