Not even in secular newspapers does one find such a stunning and concentrated ignorance (deliberate, perhaps?) about the Episcopal Corporation and its past three General Conventions. And the Church Times (which ought to know better but it is fast approaching the credibility of Episcopal Life) wants to convince its readers that the whole fuss is about one itsy-bitsy issue that oughtn’t to bother anyone, and gosh, wasn’t it terrible that the conservatives subverted the GenCon B033 moratorium? The Church Times and its most famous reader give every evidence they still live in Wonderland.
If I was grading this as an English writing essay, it would get an [b]F[/b]. But maybe not if I didn’t have a single clue that people might take their religious faith seriously.
Schism is going to happen, and it’s just a matter of where the fault line will be. Rowan Williams could have kept it to a tiny fracture back in 2003, but now sin has acquired an organized constituency because of his feckless dithering and goal-tending for TEC. It could still be non-fatal to the Communion if he’d just get off his posterior and do something substantive to discipline the heretics and apostates, but that does not seem to be his nature. The result may be the loss of a huge portion of his Communion.
I agree that this is a terrible article. Just contrast it with the strong condemnations of TEC from +Wright and Fulcrum. It shows that the CoE is internally divided too. Surprise, surprise.
Not even in secular newspapers does one find such a stunning and concentrated ignorance (deliberate, perhaps?) about the Episcopal Corporation and its past three General Conventions. And the Church Times (which ought to know better but it is fast approaching the credibility of Episcopal Life) wants to convince its readers that the whole fuss is about one itsy-bitsy issue that oughtn’t to bother anyone, and gosh, wasn’t it terrible that the conservatives subverted the GenCon B033 moratorium? The Church Times and its most famous reader give every evidence they still live in Wonderland.
If I was grading this as an English writing essay, it would get an [b]F[/b]. But maybe not if I didn’t have a single clue that people might take their religious faith seriously.
It already is! The EC has been fracturing for some time…and now probably the AC.
Schism is going to happen, and it’s just a matter of where the fault line will be. Rowan Williams could have kept it to a tiny fracture back in 2003, but now sin has acquired an organized constituency because of his feckless dithering and goal-tending for TEC. It could still be non-fatal to the Communion if he’d just get off his posterior and do something substantive to discipline the heretics and apostates, but that does not seem to be his nature. The result may be the loss of a huge portion of his Communion.
I agree that this is a terrible article. Just contrast it with the strong condemnations of TEC from +Wright and Fulcrum. It shows that the CoE is internally divided too. Surprise, surprise.
David Handy+