I'm thinking, of course, of developments particularly around decisions taken in the United States of America and the extraordinary meeting of Primates which took place in Lambeth Palace in October of last year. And Synod members will, I am sure, remember the statement issued at the end of that two-day gathering at Lambeth Palace.

More than 1,100 clerical and lay delegates will begin meeting in Tyler Thursday to act on diocesan business and policy matters. It will be their first meeting since the national church's General Convention voted in August to approve the consecration of V. Gene Robinson, an openly gay priest, as bishop of New Hampshire.

Not everyone is happy about Wimberly's request on the resolutions.

"It is not the will of the people who worship there," she told Virtuosity at an Anglican Mission conference recently in Destin, Florida, recently. She was once an elected alternate delegate to synod.

Under this system and this bishop, our future of being able to continue
on as orthodox Anglican churches is only as long as our current sitting
rectors [remain in place], she warns.

Bentley believes that if any of them should resign or retire, Ingham
will do exactly the same as what he is already doing in St.
Martinsdeclare an emergency and put in place priests and lay leaders
who are loyal to him and his liberal theology.