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TechnoratiHarmon said the archbishop had consistently failed to discipline the American church and that the letter provided "truth, but no consequences," as reported by The New York Times.
Some conservative leaders have threatened to boycott next summer's Lambeth conference, a global meeting that occurs once a decade. But Williams said the refusal to meet can be "a refusal of the cross - and so of the resurrection" and called for professionally facilitated conversations between The Episcopal Church with those they are most in dispute.
"We are being asked to see our handling of conflict and potential division as part of our maturing both as pastors and as disciples," he wrote.
Further conversations are an attempt to ease tensions and clarify options, Williams said.
Episcopal Presiding Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori welcomed the archbishop's recommendation.
"I am glad to hear of the archbishop’s interest in facilitating further conversations," she said. "While I have repeatedly offered to engage in dialogue with those who are most unhappy, the offer has not yet been seriously engaged. Perhaps a personal call from the archbishop will bring to the table those who have thus far been unwilling to talk.”
Williams acknowledged that the Communion has come to a deadlock but refused to believe that division is unavoidable or that future cooperation cannot be imagined.
"I cannot accept these assumptions, and I do not believe that as Christians we should see them as beyond challenge, least of all as we think and pray our way through Advent," he said.
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