This new volume presents the sermons, hearings, reports, and resolutions from the 10th Meeting of the Anglican Consultative Council, held in Panama City in October 1996. The Council covered many of the issued to be addressed by the Anglican Church as it faces the challenges of mission and evangelism, liturgy, ecumenical relations, and membership guidelines.

The book provides introductions to The Virginia Report on church structure and The Dublin Report on liturgy. It also includes an address by the Archbishop of Canterbury, discusses the possibility of an Anglican Congress in the near future, and includes topic suggestions for the next Lambeth Conference.