These are the 16 members of the Crown Nominations Commission, the panel selected to appoint Dr Rowan Williams’s successor as Archbishop of Canterbury….
These are the 16 members of the Crown Nominations Commission, the panel selected to appoint Dr Rowan Williams’s successor as Archbishop of Canterbury….
“helping”?
I love the editorializing in the guise of brief blurbs about each member. What the bit about the guy with stunted limbs has to do with anything is an interesting choice of descriptors.
As I observed to a friend the other day, the more I learn about the Crown Appointments process the more convinced I am that I would have stood on the block next to Thomas More.
If the Archbishop of Canterbury is the leader of the Anglican Communion, why isn’t he selected by a synod of the primates of the Anglican Communion?
This British selection process is a relic of the British Empire and is not functionally connected to the real (as the rubber hits the road) dynamics of the post-colonial Anglican Communion.
The problems being experienced within the Anglican Communion do not necessarily need to be addressed by and led to resolution by a citizen of Great Britain or by a bishop who has been living in Great Britain.
I know that this has been said before by others but it should be repeated until a leader of the Anglican Communion has been selected in a process in which all of the member national churches directly participate and which is not dominated by the English Church.
And now they can’t make up their mind. Not surprising, because the problems of the CofE are intractable UNLESS they are prepared to concede that orthodox evangelicals and anglo-catholics have a key role to play in revitalising the church.
No doubt eventually they will come up with a selection, but its an indictment that they have been unable to meet their timetable so far.