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...worldwide Anglican Communion has a new top prelate in a new top job. To streamline its scattered activities in a jet-shrinking world, the Archbishop of Canterbury last week announced that he had picked an American: the Right Rev. Stephen Fielding Bayne Jr., Bishop of the Protestant Episcopal diocese of Olympia, Wash...
Trim, twinkle-eyed Bishop Bayne, 50, is noted for his energy as well as his outspoken, often unorthodox ways; at last summer's five-week-long Lambeth Conference, he was chief architect of a trenchant report on "The Family in Contemporary Society," endorsing contraception as a liberating force in family planning...
...Bishop Bayne's new and different post, created at the request of the Lambeth Conference, consists of two secretaryships: of the Advisory Council on Missionary Strategy and the Lambeth Consultative Body. In the first, he will coordinate the missionary activities of 15 constituent self-governing churches of the Anglican Communion (total membership: 40 million). In the second, he will supervise the lines of action initiated by Lambeth Conferences during the ten-year intervals between them. In addition, he plans to make his London office (he moves in after Jan. 1) a clearinghouse for theological studies. "The thing that draws...
...Africa, India and Southeast Asia, nationalism has forced the Christian churches to speed up the process of turning control over to native churchmen. Just back from a two-month tour of African missions, Methodist Bishop Gerald Kennedy of Los Angeles said last week that the whole future of Christianity in that part of the world depends on the speed and success of the handover. "We have failed in that we have tried to keep too much control by running 'white missions,' " said Kennedy. "We need to train more natives so that the missions can become more...
From far-off mission fields came news of two clear-cut instances of what Bishop Kennedy was talking about...