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Editorial: Conflict and Forgiveness
‘Recognising that those in power have sometimes used talk of reconciliation to maintain status and impede efforts towards justice and wholeness, we seek a Communion-wide focus on a renewal of this ministry.’ (Lambeth Call on Reconciliation Statement, 2022) We intentionally conceptualised the theme of “Conflict and Forgiveness” beyond communal understandings, to also include personal encounters…
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Conflict and Forgiveness: Solidarity with young mothers in the church
Eva Abel (Anglican Church of Kenya, Religious and Ecumenical Studies student) My name is Eva Abel. I was born and raised in Kenya in a Pentecostal church (Full Gospel Church), but now I am a member of the Anglican Church of Kenya (ACK) through marriage. My husband is an Anglican priest in the same church.…
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Conflict and forgiveness: A feminist critique of reconciliation in the Church
The contemporary popularity of the language and theology of reconciliation has been such that one might be forgiven for thinking that it is a concept born in post-1994 South Africa, with its link with the Truth and Reconciliation Commission process of 1996 led by the erstwhile Archbishop of Cape Town, Desmond Mpilo Tutu. In fact,…
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Conflict and Forgiveness Interview: “The Stuggle of Love” in Sri Lanka
In this next contribution to our Conflict and Forgiveness cycle, Fr Thomas Sharp interviews Miranga Peiris. Miranga finished his theological training at the Theological College of Lanka, Kandy, in June last year. He is now based in Colombo, undergoing training for ordination at the Cathedral Institute. He is currently working with St Michael and All…
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Conflict, Forgiveness, and Seeing The Truth of The Other: Why and How Faith in Times of War Must Look Beyond Symbols
In his book Writing in the Dust: Reflections on 11th September and Its Aftermath, Rowan Williams says that when we only see humans as “symbols”, we do not see their living reality and true humanity. We see them as “other” from us. War makes this worse and leads to death. To overcome this, a vision…
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Dave Thomas: Why Am I An Anglican?
In 1983, Jeremy Taylor organized a working committee for the conference of Anglican Primates in Brazil. The name of the organization was “Theological Education in the Anglican Communion” (TEAC). This group’s mission was to oversee the styles and substance of educational programs for clergy and laity across the world’s component churches. Part of its responsibility…
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Wallace de Góis Silva: Why Am I An Anglican?
Porque aqui me sinto em Casa! Como a maioria dos brasileiros, fui batizado com um ano de idade na Igreja Católica Romana. Bom, até hoje não sei bem se eu estava emocionado ou apenas entediado, mas em boa parte das fotos daquele dia eu aparecia chorando. Bem, seja como for, não éramos o que se…
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Hanna Lucas: Why Am I An Anglican?
I am an Anglican to remember. I don’t mean this statement in the sense that one might say, ‘it was a Christmas to remember’; that I, personally, am an Anglican of any ‘memorable’ quality. I mean it in the sense that I am an Anglican in order to remember. For me, ‘remembering’ is the beating…
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Andrew Soshi Kawashima: Why Am I An Anglican?
I am an Anglican because Anglicanism is like the body of a tree fostering and supporting branches to me. Reflecting on myself in writing this essay, I concluded that it is difficult or even impossible to give a simple and definite answer to this question, ‘Why am I an Anglican’. Many complexly intertwined factors led…
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Reitumetse Hlongwane: Why am I an Anglican?
My parents are Anglicans, and so were their parents before them. In the natural flow of things, I would then become an Anglican, and that is exactly how things happened. I grew up in the Anglican Church, I went to church every Sunday as a child and at the time there wasn’t much I understood…
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