“We are working very closely with one another whether we are on the conservative end of the church, the liberal or the moderate middle,” said liberal Los Angeles Bishop Jon Bruno. “We’re looking to make as full, clear and complete a response as we can.”
The Episcopal Church, the Anglican body in the U.S., caused an uproar in 2003 by consecrating the first openly gay bishop, V. Gene Robinson of New Hampshire.
Bishop Ed Little of Northern Indiana, a theological conservative who wants to stay in the Episcopal Church, said that lay and clergy leaders from the Anglican Communion who have been attending the six-day meeting are pushing bishops to make concessions.
“They’ve all said in essence, for the good of the church, for the good of the communion, you have to take a step back,” Little said.
A good summary from Bishop Little. TEC has been told to step back since before 2003 and they haven’t. What makes on think they will now?
It has occurred to me that not only may TEC triumph over conservatives but we may also lose our claim to be Anglican if the ABC continues vacillating and the Global South moves away from Canterbury. That is a pride issue, of course, but for those of us who believe in the Church Catholic it also somehow makes us orphans psychologically with the perception of becoming another Protestant sect as Kendall has suggested.
Adam, that may be true, but if the AC proves as hollow as TEC is it not better to move away from both and go where Christ is preached and taught?
I don’t know if I would classify Ed Little as a conservative.