Senior Church of England Clergyman Sent to Kenya to Resolve Gay Dispute
A leading Church of England clergyman has been sent from Sudan to Kenya in an attempt to defuse the row between the Bishop of Chelmsford and the Archbishop of Kenya.
Posted: Friday, June 2 , 2006

A leading Church of England clergyman has been sent from Sudan to Kenya in an attempt to defuse the row between the Bishop of Chelmsford and the Archbishop of Kenya. Rev David Peak, the Archbishop of Canterbury’s Secretary for International Development, has been assigned to travel to Kenya, after the Bishop of Chelmsford, Rev John Gladwin’s trip ended abruptly, reported the Church of England newspaper.

Controversy has surrounded Rev Gladwin’s journey to Kenya, after Archbishop Nzimbi refused to continue with the schedule of Gladwin’s trip when he found out about the Bishop of Chelmsford’s role as a patron of the ‘Changing Attitude’ group.

Changing Attitude is committed to changing the core teachings on Scriptures of the Anglican Church, which rejects homosexuality, into a new morality that would welcome practising homosexuality within the Church.

Mr Gladwin has told that he was “greatly surprised and saddened” by the events which saw him barred from preaching a sermon in Nairobi’s All Saints Cathedral.

The Windsor Report’s proposals for a Covenant to keep the Anglican Communion together have now become the focus in efforts to resolve the Church’s crisis over homosexuality. story