Abp Rowan Williams (President)
Bp James Tengatenga (Chair)
Canon Elizabeth Paver (Vice-Chair)
Mrs Philippa Amable
Abp Phillip Aspinall
Bp Ian Douglas
Dr Anthony Fitchett
Dato Stanley Isaacs
Bp Kumara Illangasinghe
Abp Barry Morgan
Bp Paul Sarker
Bp Katharine Jefferts Schori
Canon Janet Trisk
Too many Nigerians and Ugandans.
Hilarious, azusa.
I’d say that there are two too many Americans.
But if the completely illegitimate appointments of die-hard liberals+Douglas and Canon Trisk are allowed to participate (contrary to ACC bylaw 7), how in the world do any Global North leaders expect this now crucial committee to have even the least amount of credibility? I guess they’re not even trying for “plausible deniability” anymore.
And, of course, that’s not even bringing up the scandal of having such blatant Covenant opponents as Dr. Firtchett of NZ and archbishops Aspinall and Morgan on the group that’s supposed to administer the Covenant.
What a farce! What a pathetic, sick farce.
David Handy+
We haven’t been hearing much about RWs [url=http://geoconger.wordpress.com/2010/06/18/bishop-jefferts-schori-rebuffs-dr-williams’-call-for-restraint-the-church-of-england-newspaper-june-18-2010-p-1/ ]secret private letter[/url] to KJS that: [blockquote] asked the Presiding Bishop to consider absenting herself from meetings of the Anglican Communion’s Standing Committee and the Primates Meeting in light of the Episcopal Church’s violation of the moratoria on gay bishops and blessings [/blockquote]
Wonder why that is?
carl
It may be good she didn’t respond to it.
Had she, there may have been a larger chance that things would go on “as usual.” There may be more of a case for decisive action now after these events with the Standing Committee.
It seems to me that RW has resigned himself to despair, and the inevitable division of the both the AC and the CoE. Conservatives are abandoning the Instruments of Communion. The remaining days are short for conservatives in the CoE. Liberal hegemony peers over the horizon in both institutions as conservatives simply shake the dust from their feet. So RW seems to have cast his lot with the liberals at the end. He accepts the leash from KJS and hopes to be taken out for a walk at least once a day so he may relieve himself.
I never believed in the existence of this letter. RW was too beholden to KJS to ever cross her like that. Instead he has chosen to work with KJS in salvaging whatever form of communion can still be cobbled together. That’s what the Standing Committee will now set about doing. It’s credibility is shot to hell, but that doesn’t matter. Those who reject its authority are the ones who have already chosen a different path. The Covenant is dead. KJS has won her game of chicken with the rest of the Communion, and will receive as her reward a conglomeration of liberal churches the exist on American money. The AC isn’t going to die a dramatic death. It will simply fade to black as the money runs out.
carl
Ergo ‘The Episcopal Communion.’
Perhaps, with the assistance of KJS’s legal team, they can sue the AC? That should keep TEkommunion afloat even when the CoE is dis-established.