In response to the decisions taken at general convention, The Archbishop of Canterbury, has outlined a “two track” future for provinces in the Anglican communion, with a choice of covenantal or associate status. One track is for those who are willing to intensify their relationships of interdependence in the communion, through signing the proposed Anglican covenant, and the other is for those who prefer federal automony, not signing the covenant.
The Anglican communion is involved in “intensifying” its current relationships and those who do not wish to continue on that “intensifying” trajectory may remain where they are, which will become track two, while the centre of the Communion moves on with glacial gravity into track one. Not exclusion, but intensification: not force, but choice.
Who cares? God does: for communion mirrors the love of the trinity better than a loose federation ”“ the federation of the holy trinity? Hardly. Who cares? Those in the precarious positions of Tutu and Gitari, in Pakistan and Sudan today, and all those who support them in solidarity, such as the 36-year interweavings of the Episcopal church of Sudan with the diocese of Salisbury, in which I now serve.
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For the record, I disagree that the comment was ad hominem, but hey, the Elves gotta do what they gotta do boss ….
Hey Elves, you deleted my comment #2, in which I stated my disagreement that #1 was ad hominem. If you don’t like #1, and aren’t going to let me express my disagreement, the fair response is to delete both #1 and #2 entirely, instead of leaving my name sitting there in #1 with an unanswered accusation.
We have seen today two examples of why a united Communion rather than a vague federation is needed in the world as Bishop Kings says:
1. Nigeria:
http://www.churchtimes.co.uk/content.asp?id=79288
2. Pakistan:
http://www.churchtimes.co.uk/content.asp?id=79315
If we in the Anglican Communion are fragmented and pulling in different directions we will be about as useless to anybody as the League of Nations was and no use to persecuted Anglican Christians.