(Please note two things. First, I realize this article is dated but it was only yesterday working on something that I realized it had not yet been posted and it remains relevant. Second, make sure to note that it should not be confused with the earlier article on the AMIA by this same writer which was posted on the blog there.. Blog readers should make sure to digest both pieces–KSH.)
Bishop Terrell Glen, a former AMIA leader who remains part of the Church of Rwanda, said [Chuck] Murphy and other American bishops did the wrong thing by bolting. They had taken a vow of obedience to their bishop, he said, and broke it by quitting.
“I don’t believe the archbishop was requiring anything of anyone that we could not submit to,” he said.
For years, leaders of the Anglican Mission and other breakaway Episcopal groups have tried to get the Anglican Communion to recognize them as a legitimate alternative to the Episcopal Church. This latest split shows how difficult that will be, said Jim Naughton, editor of Episcopalcafe.com and a former spokesman for the Episcopal Diocese of Washington, D.C.
“We don’t know how much staying power they have,” said Naughton.
Given his own past with First Promise, the birth of AMiA, the birth of ACNA, and ACNA’s own struggles, I find Abp. Duncan’s remarks… I don’t know what the word is, to be honest.
Jim Naughton’s remarks on the “staying power” of AMiA are fascinating given the trajectory of his own people.