I am coming here with hopes and anxieties. I hope and pray that there will not be decisions in the coming days that will push us further apart. If people elsewhere in the Communion are concerned about this it is because of a profound sense of what TEC can give us world wide. If I felt we could do well without your presence there would not be a problem,. But the bonds of relationship are deep. The words of Paul are helpful here. In the middle of his tension tensions and the way of challenges were for Paul sharper than those we face. He writes: “Why? Because we do not love you. God knows we do.”
M-I-C-K-E-Y because I love you! M-O-U-S-E.
Well, David, that interesting.
His comments show that he is anxious and worried about how far the EC will go and the price it will cost the Anglican Communion.
I believe he is wise to do so.
Creighton I agree. As Sarah Hey has so thoughtfully observed, the ideological liberals are driving the bus in the HoD. And that worries everyone who want to keep the WWAC together as is, especially RTW. Of 800 deputies at GC-06 perhaps 120 were conservative (15%). AAC Czar, Phil Ashey says there are only about 35 conservative deputies at Anaheim, a marked decline from Columbus (4 ACNA dioceses plus others who simply gave up the fight) and certainly not enough to stop the the leftest juggernaut.
It is so very interesting how this convention delegate make up parallels the current Congress. The Repubs in Congress are now just watching to see how far the Dems will go, and the moderate Dems are having to take stands they didn’t have to take when the Repubs were in power or had more power. The conservatives at GC 2009 are just watching to see how far the reappraising left will go, and the moderate reappraisers (Institutional reappraisers as they are being called) are having to do the heavy lifting that the reasserters used to do. As someone noted below John Burwell’s blog, the conservative delegates are just plum worn out and probably really don’t care much anymore what the HOD or HOB do, as they can’t have any effect on it one way or the other. But they ought to be having a good time watching the Institutionalists who wouldn’t join them in 2003 and in 2006 begin to sweat, as they finally see how far left and inane the Ideological Reappraisers are actually willing to go. Sarah Hey’s article on this is truly a masterpiece. The Institutionalists are reaping what they have sown and have no one but themselves to blame – they should have done what they knew was right from 1994 on, but they were too cowardly (IMO).