This is predictably bad. The entire point of the CA gatherings is/has been to provide a credible ”˜minority report’ which will have an afterlife when this is over and join up with the Primates and show a way forward for those who do not participate in the odd group-speak of the loudest TEC bishops. The resolve of the CA bishops is crucial, if there is to be a credible minority report when the dust from this (tiresome, predictable) cavalcade is over. Listening to Doss or Charles for more than five mimutes would be like sitting in a Dante netherworld. How do these CA bishops and allies endure this? It’s like a faculty meeting of 100 trying to write a document. Absurd.
It is a book to be written which would describe the almost hopeless polity of TEC. Too many bishops, too few people, spread out over a vast region and so necessitating something like this, but almost requiring tacit agreements to work””and these are no longer there except on the Left”¦
We’re all waiting to hear from the CA bishops with great hope for the results of the good work ACI has done with them, including advice from some of the finest minds in the Communion provided at ACI expense and arrangement–but so far the only thing that we have seen is their covener trying to change the subject…today is the day–I pray with Chris for this to happen…today!
Chris+ – the answer to your question “How do these CA bishops and allies endure this?” is: For as long as they can with God’s help, until they no longer can. Some can’t – like those who have left like Armstrong+ above, +Steenson, +Herzong, +Bena, and all the thousands upon ten thousands (or more) who left as individuals and parishes.
We pray that this HOB will hear from God.
OK, gotta input some humor. My other half just commented that if *I* were given the opportunity to be in that HOB listening to all that and the choice of watching the fishing channel (which, apologies to all fishermen, is worse than watching paint dry for me), I’d chose the fishing channel. At least at the end of the day I would have learned something useful.
May God be with all of these bishops, Chris Seitz+ACI et al., and all who are working for God’s glory.
“How do these CA bishops and allies endure this? “
Only by faith that man is not their Judge.
One wondered why the ABC and others had such a struggle in trying to work with the HOB! Not any more!
I read about the CD the Bishops and Spouses Choir is making for Christmas sales. I wonder if it will include ‘Nearer My God to Thee’? The Hymn the quartet was playing on the deck of the Titanic as it went down.
We are engaged in a battle that involves the unique character of anglican missionary success, otherwise called a communion! New Orleans is not the main event. It is the event that leads into the real deal: the adjudication process that will work with Bishops and communications which show themselves to stand alongside DES. THAT is what CA meetings have been about. As I wrote elsewhere, what we need is maximal clarity of the intention to walk apart on the part of a majority. THAT is what New Orleans is about — that, and good bishops like Salmon, Howe, Stanton, Lilliebridge, Wimberly, Smith, MacPherson, Jacobus, Iker, Duncan, and many others standing by all the communications that are in the hands of +RDW and others, and which consequently led to an endorsement of their work at DES. Please continue to pray for firm resolve and a solid ‘minority report.’ Grace and peace.
Where are the Network Bishops?