Windsor Continuation Group Meets: CEN 12.19.08

The Archbishop of Canterbury’s Windsor Continuation Group (WCG) has concluded its four-day post-Lambeth Conference meeting today in Texas. A spokesman for the Rt. Rev. Gary Lillibridge, Bishop of West Texas and host of the Dec 15-18 gathering at the diocese’s Mustang Island Conference Center south of Corpus Christi told ReligiousIntelligence.com that she did not expect the group to issue a formal statement on their work. Sources in London tell Religious Intelligence the WCG will forward their recommendations to Dr Rowan Williams, who is expected to share their conclusions with the primates during their Jan 31 to Feb 6 meeting in Alexandria. At the close of the Lambeth Conference, WCG chairman Bishop Clive Handford said the group’s work would also be placed before the May Anglican Consultative Council (ACC) meeting in Jamaica for action. Events, however, appear to have overtaken the relevance of the WCG’s work, as its calls for the swift implementation of moratoriums on gay bishops and blessings and parallel provinces in the Anglican Communion have been largely rejected. The leaders of the third province movement in North America tell us that while they are the ostensive beneficiaries of the WCG’s plans for a safe harbour, they have not been contacted by the group. Read it all in The Church of England Newspaper.