Editing Lambeth Conference (section)

=== Thirteenth: 1998 ===
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*Presided over by: [[George Carey]]
*749 bishops present including, for the first time, eleven of them women

The most hotly debated issue at this conference was [[Anglican views of homosexuality|homosexuality in the Anglican Communion]]. It was finally decided, by a vote of 526–70, to pass a resolution (1.10) calling for a "listening process" but stating (in an amendment passed by a vote of 389–190)<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.lambethconference.org/1998/news/lc098.cfm | title=Lambeth Conference 1998 Archives | access-date=27 November 2013 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120728181157/http://www.lambethconference.org/1998/news/lc098.cfm | archive-date=28 July 2012 | url-status=dead | df=dmy-all }}</ref> that "homosexual practice" (not necessarily orientation) is "incompatible with Scripture" and that the Conference "cannot advise the legitimising or blessing of same sex unions nor ordaining those involved in same gender unions".<ref>{{cite web
 | url=http://www.anglicancommunion.org/windsor2004/appendix/p3.6.cfm
 | title=Lambeth Conference 1998: Resolution 1.10 Human Sexuality
 | access-date=3 July 2008
}}</ref> A subsequent public apology was issued to gay and lesbian Anglicans in a "Pastoral Statement" from 182 bishops worldwide, including eight primates (those of Brazil, Canada, Central Africa, Ireland, New Zealand, Scotland, South Africa and Wales),<ref>{{cite web
 | url=http://www.whosoever.org/v3i2/lambeth2.html
 | title=A Pastoral Statement to Lesbian and Gay Anglicans
 | access-date=3 July 2008
| date=September 1998
 }}</ref> and an attempt was made at conciliation the following year in the form of the [[Cambridge Accord]]. Division and controversy centred on this motion and its application continued to the extent that, ten years later, in 2007, [[Giles Goddard]] of [[Inclusive Church]] suggested in published correspondence with Andrew Goddard across the liberal–evangelical divide: "It's possible to construct a perfectly coherent argument that the last 10 years have been preoccupied with undoing the damage Lambeth 1.10 caused to the Communion."<ref>{{cite web
 | url=http://www.inclusivechurch2.net/index.php?id=7189
 | title=Giles to Andrew
 | access-date=3 July 2008
 | url-status=dead
 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170305084344/http://www.inclusivechurch2.net/index.php?id=7189
 | archive-date=5 March 2017
 | df=dmy-all
 }}</ref>

A controversial incident occurred during the conference when Bishop Emmanuel Chukwuma of [[Enugu (city)|Enugu]], Nigeria, attempted to exorcise the "homosexual demons" from Richard Kirker, a British priest and the general secretary of the [[Lesbian and Gay Christian Movement]], who was passing out leaflets. Chukwuma told Kirker that he was "killing the church"; Kirker's civil response to the attempted exorcism was "May God bless you, sir, and deliver you from your prejudice against homosexuality."{{sfnm |1a1=Bates |1y=2004 |1p=137 |2a1=Kirkpatrick |2y=2008 |2p=5 |3a1=Shaw |3y=2006 |3p=97}}

Reflecting on resolution 1.10 in the lead up to Lambeth 2022, [[Angela Tilby]] recalled the intervention of Bishop [[Michael Bourke]], who successfully proposed an amendment which said: "We commit ourselves to listen to the experience of homosexual persons".<ref name=":0">{{Cite news |last=Tilby |first=Angela |date=22 July 2022 |title=Angela Tilby: Lambeth '98's gift to Living in Love and Faith |work=[[Church Times]] |url=https://www.churchtimes.co.uk/articles/2022/22-july/comment/columnists/angela-tilby-lambeth-98-s-gift-to-llf |access-date=23 July 2022}}</ref> Tilby considered that while the amendment had appeared inconsequential at the time, it had indeed been significant: she said that the idea of "patient listening" underpinned the Church of England's process Living in Love and Faith.<ref name=":0" />

Discussions about a mission to fight poverty, create jobs and transform lives by empowering the poor in developing countries using innovative savings and [[microcredit]] programs, business training and spiritual development led to the formation of [[Five Talents]].<ref>{{cite web | url = http://aoc2013.brix.fatbeehive.com/articles.php/771/archbishop-supports-the-work-of-charity-five-talents | title = Archbishop supports the work of charity Five Talents | date = 2009-10-29 | access-date = 2019-08-11 | quote = Five Talents is now 10 years old, or rather a little bit more than 10 years old, because at the 1998 Lambeth Conference I remember very vividly an evening where we were discussing the first principles of Five Talents; the occasion when some real substance was being put on the ideal and things were moving forward.  | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20190811110412/http://aoc2013.brix.fatbeehive.com/articles.php/771/archbishop-supports-the-work-of-charity-five-talents | archive-date = 2019-08-11 | last = Williams | first = Rowan  | author-link = Rowan Williams}}</ref>