The second camp typically includes young clergy, upscale decorators, Baby Boomers, college professors, and commission salespeople. They firmly believe that with God (or even without God) all things are possible. They say, "We are a congregation, not a business." This camp can be identified at budget meetings mostly by their absence. When shanghaied into talking about money, they glaze over.

2. endorses the “Four Principles of Anglican Engagement in Ecumenism” set out in that Report as a key description of the Anglican approach towards ecumenical activity and goals, adopts the following shorthand to describe them, and commends them to the Churches of the Communion;
1. The Goal: the full organic unity of the Church
2. The Task: recognising and receiving the Church in one another
3. The Process: unity by stages

It was felt that it was important for the Communion to determine how one particular Church maintains its catholicity - its interconnectedness with the universal Church of Christ across the world and through the millennia.

The Commission felt that there was an urgent need for the Communion to address two further important issues.

If the Communion is a fellowship of Anglican Churches, what does it mean to be Anglican?

1976:

* The General Convention, the governing body of The Episcopal Church that meets every three years, in 1976 voted on two important resolutions concerning gays and lesbians in and out of the church. Yet perhaps more significant was the vote to amend the Canon in order to allow the ordination of women.