A presentation by the Windsor Continuation Group (WCG) to the primates’ meeting was scheduled for two hours on Tuesday morning, but spilled over into the afternoon.
In December, the WCG met at the Diocese of West Texas’s conference center and prepared a final draft of its report to the primates. The report was given to the primates Tuesday, but placed under a media embargo until the close of the conference. The news blackout extended to the day’s press conference, where the primates’ spokesman, the Most Rev. Philip Aspinall of Australia, would say only that the archbishops discussed the report over two sessions.
More time, eh. How about another 3 years? Will that do it?
I joined the Episcopal Church just before the Bishop of NH brouhaha and I’m still figuring things out. In actuality , hasn’t the Windsor Report ” barn ” burned down and the ashes are cool and scattered for months ? Are the Windsor recommendations only possible in the case of some ” insert major miracles here ” situation, or, as Choir Stall wrote . . . How ’bout another 3 yrs study ?
I was reading earlier today on this blog that some of the people think that conservatives use too much sarcasm in their comments. Sometimes the news is just so ripe for it. If the primates are concerned about environmental changes in third world countries and how relief efforts can effectively be focused, I will applaud them for it. If they are going to pray to Ra, the sun god, for changes in solar activity … well this just sounds like another inconvenient truth! I’m not being serious here, but the silly comparison just makes me laugh when I read the Tuesday evening agenda. This is really nothing against the primates, but rather just how often I hear about global warming in the news as I shiver here in Pittsburgh.
Well, experentia docet et alia qua, but I think the for sheer munificence in gratuitous nomenclature that the Windsor Continuation Group clearly -if barely- edges out Asp-in-all. One must, of course, give full natural meaning to asp in its serpentine construct and context, but even then it cannot compete with Winds -or continuation. Sometimes these things just name themselves are are born into their name; the old fate versus free will thingie, yet again!
#4 dwstroudmd,
“Sometimes these things just name themselves are are born into their name”
(Captain) Row an Williams
Prayers.
Jill,
Thanks for the sober and timely reminder.
BabyBlue quotes Riazat Butt:
[blockquote] Away from the discussions, which are nowhere near as heated as they were in Tanzania, the primates are cheery. The Most Tall and Most Rev Henry Luke Orombi has been especially jolly, although the presiding bishop of the US Episcopal Church, Katharine Jefferts Schori, looks [url=http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=knackered ]knackered[/url].[/blockquote]
[blockquote]Katharine Jefferts Schori, looks knackered.[/blockquote]I think we gotta cut the lady some slack here. After all, she spent 3 days cooped up with the executive council. Based on what the EC members post on the listserve, she spent that time being lectured by 3 or 4 of them about how she needs to depose +Howe, +Lawrence and +Geralyn Wolf for not being sufficiently inclusive, and how they want her to give ++Chew a piece of her mind for daring to be on speaking terms with ++Akinola. And she had to finalize hiring an extra lawyer, since DBB can’t sue people fast enough without help. Then she gets on a plane that, after a 12 hour flight, due to time changes, lands her in Alexandria at exactly the same time as she took off in the US, except that it is now tomorrow. Having no sleep for 16 hours, she then has to explain to ++Peter Akinola and 30 of his closest friends why the Communion is so much better off with its fabric ripped to shreds by TEC than it was before all the ripping started. Then lunch. Only even her buddy ++Rowan isn’t talking to her ’cause she accidentally deposed one of his bishops on purpose. Then, after a brief conversation where ++Deng Bul lets her know exactly what he thinks her church needs to do to right itself with the Communion, she bumps into one of the 3 reporters in residence.
Most of us would look knackered.
In a later story Riazat Butt reports “….Holy Communion, which has been boycotted here by several African archbishops.”
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/belief/2009/feb/04/religion-christianity
[i] The primates’ spokesman, the Most Rev. Philip Aspinall of Australia [/i]
Who chose Abp. Aspinall to speak for the other primates? And how can he speak [i]for[/i] them when he disagrees with so much of what the majority of primates believe?
Might the choice of Aspinall have something to do with being a safe-for-the-revisionists white from a rich, English-speaking country?
#9 TJ – a very perceptive comment.