(The Episcopal Church Office of Public Affairs)
Episcopal Church Presiding Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori was elected for a three year term to the Anglican Communion Primates’ Standing Committee.
The election was held among the Primates of the Anglican Communion during the group’s recent meeting in Dublin, Ireland.
“I am grateful to my colleagues in the Americas for their confidence, and look forward to working with partners around the Communion as we seek to heal a broken and hurting world,” Presiding Bishop Jefferts Schori said. “I have every hope that the primates can be models and leaders of that work, as variously-gifted members of the Body of Christ.”
Elected to the Primates’ Standing Committee were:
Africa
Archbishop Daniel Deng Bul Yak (Sudan) – alternate Archbishop Bernard Ntahoturi (Burundi)
Central, North, South Americas and the Caribbean
Presiding Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori (The Episcopal Church) – alternate Archbishop John Holder (West Indies)
Europe
Archbishop David Chillingworth (Scotland) – alternate Archbishop Alan Harper (Ireland)
Middle East and West Asia
Bishop Samuel Azariah (Pakistan) – alternate Bishop Paul Sarker (Bangladesh)
South East Asia and Oceania
Archbishop Paul Kwong (Hong Kong) – alternate Archbishop Winston Halapua (Aotearoa, New Zealand & Polynesia)
Oh my. Let’s see how many ways they can come up with to stick their fingers in the eye of the orthodox.
I believe that there are eight primates in the North, Central, South and West Indies region: Brazil, Canada, Central America, Cuba, Mexico, Southern Cone, TEC, and West Indies. Southern Cone and Mexico were absent. It’s not at all surprising then that TEC was elected to the Primates Standing Committee.
Although I have no direct knowledge, it would seem to me that the Global South Primates knew in advance that the Primates Meeting would elect the new Standing Committee–and even so, chose to stay away. It is reasonable then to likewise assume that the Global South Primates have already in advance committed themselves to move forward by way of a path outside the so-called Instruments of Unity.
That path would be the Fellowship of Confessing Anglicans and their Primates Council. My eyes will looking to follow their lead. Does anyone therefore know when the next meeting of the Primates Council might be?
What an embarrassment
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MMR5JVo21wQ
Ms. Schori’s and ECUSA’s successes in secularly driven revolution and consolidation of revolution within the Anglican Communion fit the historical models of similar political revolutions of the 20th Century.
It is a revolution that they are winning by political chicanery both within and without ECUSA.
They have not made any valid theological arguments for their revisionist actions based upon “…the Faith once given…” nor upon its Anglican synopsis as presented in the Thirty Nine Articles.
The shame of this events lies as much with the inert and ill-informed body of ECUSA’s laity as it does with ECUSA’s leadership.
In effect, ECUSA’s laity is a mixture of sheep and goats being led by satyr-like revisionist goats.
[blockquote] The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but already it was impossible to say which was which.[/blockquote]
AnglicanFirst, it’s [b]REVOLTING![/b]
They clearly do not want the Primates who stayed away back … ever.
MargaretG,
I think they do want the Primates who stayed away to come back.
Just have them sit at the back of the bus, though.
Well we finally know the direction in which the ABC and TEC plan to take us and it is sad to see these proud and stiff necked people win another battle for earthly power but earthly power is not what Christianity is about so it is time to think of better things: Philippians 4:8-11
That people still imagine the ABC is not complicit in the liberal agenda amuses me. Watch his hands not his mouth and the truth is obvious….
On his watch the Americans were left undisciplined
On his watch all orthodox were sidetracked or deflected with indaba
On his watch the Anglo-Catholics were left out in the cold at home
On his watch the liberal agenda rolls out ever further
Maybe she’ll advance to the office of ABC next in reality and not just behind the scenes? This is exactly the outcome that would have resulted with 100% attendance of Primates because it is what the colonialist powers wish. Rowan reaps what he sowed.
Anglican Communion RIP
#10
No battle was won because no battle was fought. For there to have been a battle, there would have had to been combatants. Our side sat this one out and the predictable result was that the field was ceded to the enemy.
[14] Quite so. You called it right.
We must never forget that the purpose of Episcopal bishops is to impose a patina of religious respectability upon a decidedly political platform. That is it in a nutshell.
No battle was ever fought because one cannot battle with Schori et al.
It’s not a lack of combatants – though true enough – nor just a lack of courage to go to war on our part – though true enough – but Schori et al cannot be attacked with any weapon that they recognize as a weapon. I said this much earlier: The soplisistic are protected from outside attack because there is no weapon that can breach the barrier of being completely separated. All our weapons require communication, and communication implies an opening through barriers. They are impervious to communication so they are impervious to attack.
While we watch and fail to understand, they are building a consensus which will generate, by tally, universal truths. For us, truth has been handed down to us. For Schori et a, it is a construction whose validity is tested by its constructability – if I may invent a word. If it can be built,it must be real, a peculiar consequence of democracy at its logical extreme. The is nothing real that consensus does not make it so.
But there is more than this, for they are positing a utopian world as a consequence of their creation of truth. Well, that’s a different matter, but I tell you, we (and I) have underestimated the kind and degree of damage she is capable of, because her attitude, her isolation and absolutism have a wide cultural base to draw from – the entire generation of Baby Boomers and their children. They REALLY think that science will allow them to live forever and will give them the means to remedy societies defects so that they or their children will live to see Eden once again – from which no distant Deity can ever expel them. Men have made the world; they can remake the world.
Watch out. There are cultural forces here at work that I have only gotten a glimpse of, and she touches them where they live. Larry
The battle under Rowan’s rigged conditions is pointless. See Presiding Bishop Anis’ resignation letter. The battle will be won by evangelization which is the domain of the GS. The TEClub and the CoE are disappearing. Why bother battling with them? They will be essentially gone in a generation.
#14: Please don’t discount the effort made by the Global South Bishops, the ACNA, Priests and Bishops who spoke out, and those in the congregation who spoke out, even websites like Stand Firm in Faith, TitisOneNine and other websites have fought the battle.
PB Schori’s victory seems very important to us now because we know the damage that is done to the Communion by her appointment, but it is a worldly victory and she and the ABC seem to be on a self destructive path that cannot endure.
I believe that God has a plan for His Church and although I don’t know what He plans, I hope that we will have learned enough from this to stand firm in faith and follow Christ when He rescues His Church.
well, many were never fooled by the ABC….he does, after all, remain consistent – he has always stood by his revisionist writings and has helped revisionists every step of the way in their ‘inch at a time’ strategy. Not sure why anyone ever expected him to do otherwise….. and attacked those who did not play along rather than revisionists being accomodated by the ABC since 2003. But, at least now, there are very few saying we should trust the ABC and go for fake ‘indabas’ until the cows come home and give more time for him to build unity…… this is a good thing. The future is bright…. what matters is NOT institutional unity but genuine unity in the one who prayed in John 17
#18, you have missed the point. It makes no difference whether
TEC will perish as a matter of numbers. Saving TEC is not what
Schori et all has in mind. We are not fighting TEC (as I used to think), we are fighting a new religion, with Scori and the ABC on the front line. And we cannot touch them with any of the usual weapons because they are not vulnerable to them. Stop and think a moment: What will a sense of invulnerability, a sense that the force of social history is YOUR momentum, what will this do to your attitudes, your posture when you engage the battlefield?
The growth of homosexual special interests in Britain is a good case in point. The government and the religious left wing are winning all the battles. Why? Because they cannot be touched, and they cannot be touched because a broad consensus has created a new set of truths, which, because they are broadly held, have acquired the force of universality. This same “voting” is working here in the US with the same results beginning to show. The Bible is irrelevant here as is the word once received. We really need to wake up and assess more correctly why we are losing all the battles and why Schori et all are untouched. Larry
#21, if what you say is correct – that TEC has created its own “universal” reality and, therefore, cannot be fought with formerly understood universal truths, then #18 would seem to be correct that TEC, CofE, et al, should be ignored, as fighting them is a waste of time and resources. Either their new religion will prevail or our “old” religion will prevail, and only God will make the difference, as we follow the Jesus Creed. I’m comfortable with that.
#22.
I’m not familiar with the “Jesus Creed.”
Jesus Creed is two great commandments – in short, “Love God, love you neighbor.”
I have never heard of the “Jesus Creed”.
I know that Faith and discipleship in and with Jesus Christ is the only path to Salvation
and that
the Apostles Creed,
the Nicene Creed,
the Great Commandment,
the Great Commission,
and the Ten Commandments
along with the other Judeo-Christian Scriptural tenets are included in one’s discipleship in and with Jesus Christ.
See http://www.christianbook.com/the-jesus-creed-loving-god-others/scot-mcknight/9781557254009/pd/254001 for fuller explanation of The Jesus Creed. Back in @ 2005, our entire church spent an entire Lent reading and studying this book by Scot McKnight.
RE: “No battle was won because no battle was fought.”
Of course battles were fought continually — over the previous four Primates Meetings. Once a sufficient number of Primates recognized that it was a waste of resources to “fight battles” on fields which were owned by the enemy, along with the referees, rules, etc . . . they decided not to waste those resources on those particular battlers.
Sarah, I meant re: Dublin.
See #22’a conclusion. This is PRECISELY the position that Schori et al wish us to take, for it leaves them with a clear field and with no impediments pending. Isn’t this so? Anyway, I submit that this is the worst possible position for us to take. We need new approaches, new tactics, because, for us, this is a war a l’outrance. They believe they cannot lose,but we know that, if we do nothing, we will surely lose – as we are losing right this moment. What will stop the GL agenda? Anything? Nothing? But surely pretending that this poison ivy is not swallowing the back yard is not how you protect the yard. It’s how you protect the poison ivy.
Beg pardon, Billy but I find the phrase Jesus Creed for the two great commandments in poor taste, for I am offended by taking two such important propositions and giving the a bumper sticker folksiness. Am I alone in this? Maybe this is violation of the elves rules, but that is not my intention. this is like calling President Obama
“a cool black dude.” Larry
Regarding the so called “Jesus Creed”, I agree with you, Larry. It seems to me that calling Jesus’ commandments a creed may be a sly way of trying to replace the Nicene Creed.
For the time being, both the commandments and the creeds are respected (or at least given lip service) by TEC and I hope that the church will not attempt to revise them.
Hi Larry Morse — I was responding to Evan Miller who stated what I quoted above.
We should not fight battles whose outcomes are already foregone conclusions. We should fight battles where we have a shot to accomplish something. Nothing — and I do mean absolutely nothing — *other than* affirming RW’s strategy — would have been accomplished by the GS Primates marching en masse to the “Primates” Meeting.
Larry,
I’m with you on both the “Jesus Creed” and the apparent decision by the orthodox primates to retire from the field.