More info about Satcher at its web site.

See: http://www.msm.edu/Centers_&_Institutes/The_Satcher_Health_Leadership_Institiute_(SHLI)/About_Us.htm

Ford Foundation grants are apparently helping fund the Center of Excellence for Sexual Health. There is at least mention of science and evidence-based practices in sexual health.

Getting some accurate science data and evidence-based public health and general public policy practices into the listening process for Anglicans would be most welcome; though of course not everybody thinks they have anything to learn about gays or sexuality or health, at all, as the leaders in Nigeria and other conservative forums have already stated forcefully.

The Global South Anglican response is interesting -- not least because it justifies border crossings (the "moratorium" which has never been observed) & is signed almost exclusively by Lambeth boycotters.

BTW -- what is this "agreed upon moratoria" language? By whom? The interveners have never agreed to stop border crossings, but always justified them. The illegally passed BO33 doesn't explicitly say what the moratoria request (even thought that was its intent & has been its effect).

"Some of us who had previously had significant doubts about the wisdom of these interventions have become aware from those whose provinces have taken this bold step that these interventions were both necessary and justified, and others that they were understandable, as an answer to a distress call" - Global South response to ACC14 -

More justified, perhaps, was the decision made in various Churches of the Communion, to ordain both women and gays and to bless the parterships of monogamous gay couples. I wonder whether that was talked about with any sense of fairness in the plenaries of the Council? For the Global South to throw its weight behind the 2 other moratoria - against the ordination of gay bishops and the blessing of same-sex unions - while still supporting defiance of the moratorium on border-crossings, is patently hypocritical.

However, two good things came out of the decisions of ACC14 for which God may be thanked, and they are 1/ the decision not to proceed with a suggested 4th moratorium (against the continuance of legislation to retrieve the assets of TEC and the A.C.of C., and, 2/ the refusal of the Council to accept clause 4 in the covenant document, which would have allowed ACNA and other dissident churches to join the Communion under the guise of so-called 'other churches'. This is something for which we can all be thankful.

On further reflection, perhaps the exclusion of a last minute ploy of the Ugandan Archbishop, to place a border-crossing American official of the Uganda-ACNA sodality onto the Council itself, by the Joint Standing Committee of ACC, was a major sign that the Communion cannot be bullied by anyone - let alone a Primate who opted not to attend the meeting himself. His consequent chagrin has no doubt been noted by Anglicans all over the world - or, if not, it should have been.

Let's hope that the meeting of ACC15, in New Zealand, may be able to formulate a more cohesive and theologically sound basis on which to restore confidence on Anglicanism as a religious organisation; without prejudice against minority interests such as the LGBT community, and the more neglected majority partner of women in the Church.