“The proposal is that it begins with a number of different conversations taking place simultaneously at first. This is to provide a safe space where dialogue can begin and progress together in a spirit of discernment.”
The Primates of the Anglican Communion will meet together in separate rooms. Priceless! Only out of the Lambeth offices could such a daft arrangement issue forth. What do the powers at the ACO fear? Fisticuffs? A reach across the table to grab a fellow Primate by the throat?
As others have said before, invite all the Primates and whoever comes is in communion.
From Simon Sarmiento at Thinking Anglicans. The quote is from the Church Times, which is available only to subscribers for a week.
It's been clear since Dromantine & Dar-es-Salaam, when various primates, mainly "Global South", refused to take communion with primates of TEC & the Canadian Church, that the Communion was broken. Non-attendances at Lambeth confirmed this. The remaining decision is whether or not the AC will be run by an undemocratic, fundamentalist clique, who will settle for nothing short of total victory.
ReplyDeleteWhen the head of a province refuses to take communion with the head of another province, then the communion is broken, a fait accompli.
ReplyDeleteWell it depends on the definition of Anglican Communion and there may be at least two different definitions wandering around.
ReplyDeleteFor all Christians A and B. If A shares communion with the ABC and B shares communion with the ABC then A and B are in the Anglican Communion. (Of course in some cases A is trying to get ABC not to share communion with B and thereby kick B out of the Anglican communion.)
The other definition is
For all Christians A and B. If A shares communion with B and A and B share communion with the ABC then A and B are in the Anglican communion.
Erp, wait! I'm confused. Wouldn't it be easier to understand if we simply said that it depends on what you mean by Anglican Communion? Or alternatively, it depends upon what you mean by communion. Best to leave it vague, don't you think? That's why we don't need the Daft Anglican Covenant!
ReplyDeleteNO ANGLICAN COVENANT!.
Ah these Global South grandstanders will try anything to look all moral-like--such embarrassing behavior, especially for grown men who profess to be Righteous, Godly and Holy--makes me want to gag (or heave as Bonnie would say).
ReplyDeleteLet´s hope they will beat back their puffed up prides that proceed them and share openly/equally with others at The Anglican Communion Primates Meeting (or take another powder and go back to lappin up the free-be´s and $$$ at Gafconning-Shangrilandia).
Betcha anything the new ¨terms¨ to come back to any table/altar include dragging the uninvited accomplice Robert Duncan with them (most likely he will be hovering in a motel somewhere nearby if not seated in the next room already).
Don´t forget the written words from The Guardian U.K. in May:
ReplyDelete¨The conservatives in Africa and the US have been getting impatient, because until the Covenant is ratified, there is nothing to beat the Episcopal Church in the US over the head with.¨
GUESS WHAT THE CHURCH OF ENGLAND MAY RATIFY ON MONDAY?
Fisticuffs? A reach across the table to grab a fellow Primate by the throat?
ReplyDeleteOh, that would be so much fun. Can you imagine!
Gafconning-Shangrilandia
ReplyDeleteGenius, Leo, pure genius.
Luv, I believe the vote on the Anglican Daft Covenant will be on Wednesday.
Cathy, that would be great fun, indeed, especially if someone had a small video camera.
If someone had a camera, that would go viral on YouTube on the instant.
ReplyDeleteWe can but wait and hope.
What do the powers at the ACO fear?
ReplyDelete(On behalf of too many primates) girl cooties.
JCF, we all know that, and even if our Presiding Bishop was male, he would be tainted by having two gay bishops and, even worse, having ordained the lesbian bishop.
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