Rt. Rev'd and Dear Sir:
Thank you for your kind and informative letter. I deeply appreciate your willingness to interrupt your busy schedule to write to me. I shall send it and this reply on to Louie Crew with permission from us both to publish them.
Nothing could please me more than to learn how much work was accomplished at Lambeth apart from the sexuality resolution. You will be disturbed to know that none of my several correspondents on this subject knew any more than I about that work, and each was as distressed I about the point I was making. That point was is that there is not a body of material mentioned in any pastoral letter on the agenda items identified by Archbishop Carey. You say yourself that I will have to get that material somehow at an uncertain future date.
You will remember that I supported the Archbishop's Lambeth agenda published in AGLICAN WORLD, and wanted to add ecological concerns as a fifth item. I appreciate your understanding that I strongly support the institution of Lambeth Conference. It troubles me and many across the spectrum on many issues in the Anglican Communion that we cannot seem to communicate with ourselves in detail and with dispatch, much less the world at large, except through secular headlines.
Please know that the bishops of the Church have my prayer and sympathetic support for the difficulties each of you face in your dioceses and among yourselves as a body. It was never my intention to add to that burden, and I hope that my remarks have not been construed as such by any of you.
Faithfully yours,
The Rev'd Dr. Thomas C.H. Scott, Rector
St. Mark's Episcopal Church
Evanston, IL
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