The update

Over the next few weeks I’ll try and post a bit more stuff about the huge shift in what’s been going on in our lives over the last couple of months. The reason I haven’t done so already is that there simply hasn’t been time! Every single day since we landed back in South America has been a whirlwind of things to do, people to see and places to be. Finally this week we’ve managed to settle down a bit and catch our breath, we have an apartment now that we are nested into nicely and my job search has been nicely helped by a friend of mine who offered me 3 weeks very well paid work at the Lambeth Conference. which is being held in Canterbury next week.

It does feel a little bit like I’ve been thrown out of the frying pan and into the fire with it, almost 3 years working in a large non-denominational church only to come home to work at the Anglican church world conference feels like an overdose of church politics. For those of you who need bringing up to speed, the Anglican church encompasses a huge number of all the Christian churches around the world and it isn’t happy! A powder keg has been waiting to explode for the last few years about the issues of gay ordination and women bishops with the liberal western (and in particular American) interpretation of theology a direct contrast to more conservative interpretation and culture that the church has historically adhered to and many churches in Africa especially want to remain faithful to. This meeting of all the worldwide leaders happens only once a decade so this could well be a defining moment for the worldwide church with a complete split by no means out of the question. I’ll let you know how things go and if I get some down time bring you all up to speed on the last few weeks as well.

Laters - A