Presiding Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori told ENS that she is encouraged by the tone of the communiqué, but acknowledged that “the long-term impact of ‘gracious restraint’ is a matter for General Convention,” the Episcopal Church’s main legislative body that next meets in July in Anaheim, California.
“We are going to have to have honest conversations about who we are as a church and the value we place on our relationships and mission opportunities with other parts of the communion and how we can be faithful with many spheres of relationship at the same time,” she said. “That is tension-producing and will be anxiety-producing for many, but we are a people that live in hope, not in instant solutions but in faithfulness to God.”
“Presiding Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori told ENS that she is encouraged by the tone of the communiqué, but acknowledged that “the long-term impact of ‘gracious restraint’ is a matter for General Convention,” the Episcopal Church’s main legislative body that next meets in July in Anaheim, California.”
At GenCon09 TEC will move ahead with its agenda and the Anglican Communion can……well continue to deliberate and send strongly worded messages.
The good news from Egypt is that the primates are open to the idea of a new province. The WCG report cites several ways in which this might happen!
http://www.pwcweb.com/ecw
So +Rowan’s happy that the can gets kicked down the road for a little while longer. OK. First, do no harm. And Integrity’s upset. And that’s good. If they really are upset. And 815 is still whistling past the graveyard on their way to continue shopping for millstones for to wear upon their collective necks (and you know how that ends).
Ready for the next move.
Claims to hierarchy are clearly demonstrated to be balderdash by the appeal to the General Convention as the definitive authority of the ECUSA/TEC/GCC/EO-PAC. That the General Convention was designed to be a bicameral legislature on the Articles of Confederation model repudiated by the United States in the adoption of the Constitution does not render it hierarchal in any sense. Check in with old bishop Seabury about what was meant by hierarchal if you need a history lesson. Seabury lost, by the way.
No Kudos in this article. No reason for me to consider going back to ECUSA. Disappointment with the Primates, certainly with Shori. Nothing solved here.
long-term impact of ‘gracious restraint’
What does this gracious thing mean? Toning down the services of SSB? Ordaining practicing gays in a quieter way? Surely, Chane and Bruno have no intentions of ‘actual restraint’. The Primates are not their boss and Shori certainly isn’t. They give no appearance of even answering to God Almighty.
Oops, Schori. Sorry.
“We are going to have to have honest conversations about who we are as a church and the value we place on our relationships and mission opportunities with other parts of the communion and how we can be faithful with many spheres of relationship at the same time,” she said. “That is tension-producing and will be anxiety-producing for many, but we are a people that live in hope, not in instant solutions but in faithfulness to God.” Translation: Damn the torpedoes! Full steam ahead! The communion exercises gracious restraint while Schori & Co. proselytise (sp?) the other provinces of the communion, and the pain inflicted is necessary to bring to fruition God’s “new thang”. That rumbling in south western Virginia is my Reverend father revolving in his grave at all this.
Dumb Sheep.