Monday, October 18, was the Church's annual observance of the Feast of St. Luke, a physician who remains a patron of other healers, and was an early missionary in the spread of Christianity through the Roman world.

This year, October 18 also brought the release of “The Windsor 2004 Report” of the Lambeth Commission on Anglican unity, an international panel charged last year by the Archbishop of Canterbury to explore the nature of ties that unite the world's 77 million Anglicans in 38 church provinces spanning 164 countries.

In the light of that report, many of us are considering what it means to be an Anglican; What is means to be an Episcopalian. What is this Church to which we belong? BELOW ARE ARTICLES AND OTHER MATERIALS THAT MAY SHED LIGHT ON THESE QUESTIONS

The WINDSOR2004 REPORT (.pdf)

The WINDSOR 2004 REPORT indexed

What is the "Windsor Report?

THE FOCUS OF THE REPORT

Good Description of the Situation from the NEW YORK TIMES (10/19)

Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori’s REFLECTIONS ON THE ISSUES

Presiding Bishop FRANK GRISWOLD’S RESPONSE

First thoughts from the Bishop of Bethlehem (PA), PAUL MARSHALL

COMMENTS FROM EPISCOPAL BISHOPS

HOLY SCRIPTURE and the CONSECRATION OF GENE ROBINSON (.pdf)
By The Rev. Jeffrey Krantz, Episcopal Church of the Advent
Westbury, New York

The Report’s call for “A MORATORIUM” - Bishop WALTER RIGHTER

ARE WE CAPITULATING TO SOCIETY?
Dr. Howard Anderson, College of Preachers

George Werner’s COMMENTS

“... CHALLENGES ALL OF US TO GO MORE DEEPLY AND STRETCH MORE BROADLY”
Carolyn Tanner Irish, Bishop of Utah

Presiding Bishop Frank Griswold’s COMPASSION SERMON

Bishop Mark Dyer’s STATEMENT

NPR Interview (June 4) with Bishop Gene Robinson on Homosexuality and the Church

Material from 2003 General Convention on RELATIONSIPS & BLESSINGS

LATEST NEWS REPORTS AND COMMENTS
(The Episcopal News Service)