Dr Williams’s efforts to keep the warring factions within the fold of the Anglican Communion will effectively be rendered meaningless if the American Church refuses to comply with the demands of the global church leaders.
“He’s in no uncertainty as to the importance of this meeting,” said one of his closest aides.
“The meeting is a major step in deciding whether the Anglican Communion can stay together as a global family. The Archbishop will try to find out whether the Episcopal Church is prepared to seek a way forward.”
The Anglican Communion – which has 70 million members worldwide – was plunged into the present crisis by the election of Gene Robinson, an openly gay cleric, to be Bishop of New Hampshire in 2003.
“The Archbishop will try to find out whether the Episcopal Church is prepared to seek a way forward.” ABC RW
TEC’s way forward may be a Trojan Horse offering. I pray that the way forward will be TEC accepting that which has already been asked of it during these last four years by all four instruments of untiy.
“The Archbishop will try to find out whether the Episcopal Church is prepared to seek a way forward.”
Well, I admire a persistant man, but aren’t there some limits where persistance at a task falls short of being productive?
In Wisconsin we have apples. I think that we have the finest apples in the whole USA. Sometimes I buy a whole bushel or two and keep tham in the cool basement and they will last and keep til the following Summer if I am very watchful of them. If I go through them every week and take out the bad ones, I might find two or three per week with spots or soft places. If I remove them, those that remain are safe. If I were to leave them, the entire bushel would be rotten within a month.
TEC has had some rot for a long time now. If it would have been dealt with a long time ago, only a very small part of TEC would have had to have been dealt with. As it is, a few good apples need to be removed for their own good and the remainder disposed of.
I do not wish to think the ABC of being in denial but, among the positive alternatives, he is leaving me less and less wiggle room as we procceed.
God help him deal with the bad apples.
DonGander, the A of C was selected, due to his previous support of the Gay position, as it is the political position of the party in power in England. As the TEc pays most of the cost of running the Communion he is hard pressed in his efforts to string this out until he can retire and get rid of this tarbaby. I expect a large load of fudge and little else from his meeting with the HoB. The solution will have to come from the orthodox primates.