The theme of the 76th General Convention is “Ubuntu” derived from the African Bantu meaning, “I am because we are. We share in order to prompt others to hear the call to action”. General Convention really is more than elections, adopting budgets and passing resolutions. We hope and pray that the leadership of our church will receive a new inspiration for mission and ministry. Martin Luther King, Jr. referred to his times as “the fierce urgency of now.” We are faced with a similiar challenge in our world.
We bunt. They bunt. You bunt, too. It IS a metaphor for the ECUSA/TEC/GCC/EO-PAC. It may also be their reality. It bears no relation to the computer program or the African word. Alternatively, it bears the same relation ship to the African word that inadaba did at Lambeth and the relationship of the abacus to the computer program.
Either way, it’s a bunt.