Weve nearly reached the end of the Lambeth Conference, can you give us some general impressions?
The conference has been like a game of chess in which the pawns take the castle and maneuver bishops into the corners. One knight is in abeyance and the other is crafty and you know who rules the board. Describe, if you can, your impressions or experience of the indaba groups. Indaba enabled us to feel one another’s pain on a variety of issues and having felt one another’s pain I think the majority in my indaba group will continue on the trajectory they are on. Reminds me of the Hasidic rabbi’s story: When we come into the synagogue, we all hang our sorrows like hats and coats on pegs in the back and when the service is over we all collect them making sure we get our own hat and coat lest we take another’s sorrows. The thought behind the indaba process seems to have been that if bishops with different perspectives could get together in the indaba groups and have conversations and develop relationships with one another that deepened “understanding” might bring unity. Do you think that t
