Written by Sean McConnell
Britain's Telegraph
newspaper has been using this week's lead-up to the
Lambeth
Conference to publish
a list of the 50 most influential Anglicans. The list began
listing numbers 41 - 50 on Wednesday, July 9th, and has included
such notables as Integrity
USA's president the Rev. Susan Russell,
Titus 1:9
creator the Rev. Kendall Harmon, and Nigerian human rights
activist
Davis Mac-Iyalla.
The Rt. Rev. Marc Andrus comes in at number 19 on the list, just
ahead of New Zealand's Dr. Jenny Te Paa and just following House of
Deputies president Bonny Anderson. The Telegraph said of Andrus:
Bishop Andrus was one of those determined not to attend the
Lambeth Conference if Bishop Gene Robinson was not invited, but
was persuaded by Robinson to be a ‘voice at the table’.
He has been in the eye of the storm following the Californian
Supreme Court decision to open up marriage to gay couples.
He welcomed the decision and urged churchgoers to oppose
conservative moves to overturn the verdict. His pastoral
guidelines to his clergy call on them to put gay and straight
relationships on a par by encouraging all couples to get married
first in a secular service and then being blessed in church
services.
See the list here.
