Christless Acts At Lambeth Conference. By Uncle Monty.

Christless Acts At Lambeth Conference
Story and Photos By Uncle Monty
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Strifling security greeted all at The
2oo8 Lambeth Conference. Archbishops
and bishops could not be seen high or low. It
was like they'd been cocooned or sequestered
from ordinary Anglicans and unnoted mortals.

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Trying to find the various conference venues
was like hitchhiking here and there across the
huge campus of the University of Kent and falling
flat on one's face to find it or that wasn't there.
Posted signs were rare and what few I saw were
mainly felt-pen scribbled and struck on some
existing door or wall.

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The Marketplace -- where church and religious
groups and Christian businesses could offer
their sales or program pitch was so tucked
away it was finally discovered after a number
of tries and then only to be disappointed by its
small size and poor selection of goods. It took
less then 15 minutes to see everything
on display at The Marketplace.
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Crowds were non-existent on what was the
first official day of the public being permitted
to attend the conference's fringe events and
the marketplace. It was hard to tell if seminars
were or were not open to members of the public.

The glossy 96-page Official Programme and Event

Guide of The Lambeth Conference looked all pretty

and nice, but it was absolutely useless when denied

access to attend this and that as a member of the

Anglican public.
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Archbishop Rowan Williams' Crown Cope.

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But it was at the rigmarole registration process
at the Grimond Building that the whole sad story
of The 2oo8 Lambeth Conference showed its ugly
face in the form of the truly cynical and officious
Rev'd John Carter, the main press co-ordinator for

the conference. His christless acts were priceless.

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More like a prison official was Mr. Carter than a kindly

church minister, whose minnow mouth opened and

closed much like the very little fish he is in the big

global Anglican Communion fish bowl. And, he was

as subborn as a mule was he. Visit his two blogz:

1: http://churchinaspin.blogspot.com/

2: http://www.blogger.com/profile/02719886452231429452

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He told me that some of the bishops were

so frightned of being attacked and harmed that
the need for tight security was paramount for them.
Really? And, yes John Carter was the conference gate-

keeper and paid Anglican arbiter of who was or who was

not “legitimate” press according to his christless eyes and

severe judgement. I instantly took an intense disliking to the

fellow. No, he’d never heard of Uncle Monty before. That

was enough for him to callously deny me access to news

briefings and seminars and freedom to attend fringe

events. For me then, The Lambeth Conference quickly

became a non-event due primarily to the impish and

and garbage behaviour of the Rev'd John Carter, who

is also the communications officer for the English

Diocese of Ripon and Leeds. He's involved, too,

with the Churches Advertising Network (CAN).

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At Where Some Lambeth Conference Bishops Meet

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The conference's stifling security was based on the

issuing of a variety of different coloured lanyards from

purple to white to red to blue, etc., to those of various

rank and status so attending The Lambeth Conference.

Without a lanyard around your neck you were dead.
Security folkz worked like vultures against those without
lanyards. Paul Squires was a good example of such a security

vulture and overkiller that I personally encountered twice

from him aside from John Carter, who was so contemptuous

of his fellow Anglicans I wondered how he could call himself

an Anglican “reverend.” And still get away with it. At one

point during my bitter encounter with him, the “no good”

reverend even went as far as to verbally threaten me with

taking me to court to sue me should I write anything

about him that he didn’t like. Well, make my day ... I

saw no grace or prayers at The Lambeth Conference.

All I saw were little men on secular "power trips"

and christless acts.
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Rev'd Canon Pamela Wilding

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Thus such was my sorrowful experience at
The Lambeth Conference set at the See of
Canterbury at where to visit the cathedral
precincts now cost £7.00 or $US14.00. Last
time I was at the cathedral three years ago
it was free for all visitors. Now they charge
one and all. It's too much and it's too bad.
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Sincerely, Uncle Monty.
+The 8th Day of the Lambeth
Conference, 2oo8.
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The Big Top at The Lambeth Conference, 2oo8.

Below, I leave you with a small selection of my

"Images of The See of Canterbury."

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A further note now on The Lambeth Conference.
Most of the 700+ archbishops and bishops will be
parading in London along with the earthly religious
mighty like Cardinal Cormac Murphy-O'Conner,
head of the Holy Catholic Church in England and
Wales; Dr. Jonathan Sachs, British Chief Rabbi; and
chairman Ibrahim Mogra, leader of the British Mus-
lims, as they gather by interfaith endeavour for the
"Walk of Witness" against world poverty. So perhaps
I'll finally get to see and meet some of the "Big Whigs"
of the religious establishment that I was prevented
from meeting by that Carter dude at Canterbury.
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My question is this: If the bishops are so
frightened for their security and safety, as Carter
stated so melodramtically to me, why then are those
same consecrated clerics now planning to parade
themselves openly on the streets of London as they
make their way to Lambeth Palace before returning
to The Lambeth Conference at The See of Canterbury?
I see, so they're to be escorted as they walk the streets
under ready armed British cops or what?
I rather -think not ... Rev'd Caaaaaarter.
Your's, Uncle Monty.
+Mary Magdalene, 2oo8.
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