GAFCON (Global Anglican Futures Conference) started this week and GadgetVicar is blogging from Jerusalem. Meanwhile Ruth Gledhill points out that a rival event produces an interesting culture clash: GAFCON versus Gay Pride.

Rev. Ruth has an interesting alternative to the idea of an Anglican Covenant and +Brian has put his pre-Lambeth thoughts on the all new, shiny Dioscese of Edinburgh website.

Also, while not Anglican as such, I'm sure Allan Brown's opinions on clergy blogging will be of interest to the owners of several pisky blogs:

God Save Us From Blogging Vicars

"We don’t really do trendy vicars here: once they see the modern Scotland they’re expected to embrace, 1st-century Galilee under the Romans suddenly seems freshly appealing."

Brazil priest flying party balloons lost at sea

"A prison sniffer dog has been suspended from his post after allegedly killing a group of ducks at a Lancashire jail.

The three-year-old dog was reported to the governor of HMP Garth after the recent discovery of the dead birds.

Until the suspension, he was one of a number of dogs responsible for finding drugs at the category B prison in Ulnes Walton Lane in Leyland, Preston.

1. Scotland has less than 0.1% of the world's population but still manages to produce 1% of all published research
2. I have Autosomal-dominant Compelling Helio-Opthalmic Outburst syndrome
3. Dundee is Scotland's only south-facing city. Apparently
4. Euan Blair (yes, the ex-PM's son) worked on production of the film V for Vendetta
5. It is illegal to own a hamster in Vietnam

Maputo Archbishop Francisco Chimoio claimed some anti-retroviral drugs were also infected "in order to finish quickly the African people".

The Catholic Church formally opposes any use of condoms, advising fidelity within marriage or sexual abstinence.