As a member of the No Anglican Covenent Coalition, I support Resolution D022 which has been submitted to General Convention 2015.
Resolved, the House of _______ concurring, That the 78th General Convention of The Episcopal Church affirm our common identity and membership in the Anglican Communion, neither the present nor any desired future nature of which is properly described by the Anglican Communion Covenant; and be it further
Resolved, That the 78th General Convention direct The Episcopal Church’s members of the Anglican Consultative Council to express our appreciation to the 16th meeting of the Anglican Consultative Council (ACC16, Lusaka 2016) for the gift of inter-Anglican conversation and mutuality in God’s mission engendered by the Anglican Communion Covenant process.
The previous GC declined to vote a firm "No" to the covenant, and now
it's past time to lay the Anglican Covenant to its final rest and give
it the decent burial it so richly deserves. The courageous dioceses in
the Church of England and other churches in the communion voted the covenant down, so, for all intents and
purposes, it is dead, and I hope General Convention will add its
signature to the death certificate.
Many thanks to Lionel Deimel for his major effort to formulate the resolution and gather the support of a sufficient number of deputies to submit the resolution to GC.
Many thanks to Lionel Deimel for his major effort to formulate the resolution and gather the support of a sufficient number of deputies to submit the resolution to GC.
As you know, I'm off Facebook for two months, so haven't seen this before. I heartily endorse this: after all, if the Church of England rejected it overwhelmingly, is there any reason for any other province to endorse it? That being said, what do you reckon its chances of passage are?
ReplyDeleteThe Episcopal Church will never say yes to the covenant, but GC seems reluctant to say a definite no. The convention will have a lengthy agenda this year, which includes resolutions on marriage equality and the election of a new Presiding Bishop. There is doubt whether the covenant resolution will move out of committee, and, if it does, I can't say what the chances of passage would be. Still, no harm in trying.
DeleteGood for you, June.
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