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Vol. 75, No. 7, June 2006

In addition to being a prolific scholar and popular speaker, Bishop N.T. Wright also was a member of the Lambeth Commission on Communion which wrote the Windsor Report.

He has advocated withholding invitations to the Lambeth Conference in 2008 to bishops of the Episcopal Church, if the church fails to make a satisfactory response to the Windsor Report.
In his recent travels, Wright said, he senses, "a groundswell of desire for staying together somehow."

"What a great many people are looking for is a signal from the Episcopal Church that Windsor has been heard and not just rejected huffily. If we get a signal that the American Church has taken this seriously…a lot of people will say 'Whew!' because we really do like you guys."

If there is not such signal, Wright predicted, "there will be a lot of cynicism and sorrow." An unsatisfactory response to the Windsor Report might also precipitate additional border crossings by foreign primates who claim disaffected Episcopal parishes as their own, a practice Wright characterized as "the ecclesiastical equivalent of road rage."

Wright hasn't read the 11 resolutions drafted by the Episcopal Church's Special Commission on the Episcopal Church and the Anglican Communion in response to the Windsor Report, and doesn't know if they constitute a sufficient response to the report. However, he added: "It will certainly play a lot better than if they don't pass."

- Jim Naughton

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