Full Legislative History
Resolution Number: 1982-D020
Title: Affirm the Lambeth Statement on Non-violent Action for Justice and Peace
Legislative Action Taken: Concurred As Substituted and Amended
Final Text:

Resolved, That this 67th General Convention of the Episcopal Church reaffirms the statement made by the Anglican Bishops assembled at Lambeth in 1978 and adopted by the 66th General Convention of the Episcopal Church in 1979, calling "Christian people everywhere...to engage themselves in non-violent action for justice and peace and to support others so engaged, recognizing that such action will be controversial and may be personally very costly;" and be it further

Resolved, That this General Convention, in obedience to this call, urges all members of this Church to support by prayer and by such other means as they deem appropriate, those who engage in such non-violent action, and particularly those who suffer for conscience's sake as a result; and be it further

Resolved, That this General Convention calls upon all members of this Church seriously to consider the implications for their own lives of this call to resist war and work for peace for their own lives.

Citation: General Convention, Journal of the General Convention of...The Episcopal Church, New Orleans, 1982 (New York: General Convention, 1983), p. C-122.