…Canon Porter then brought in a 24 professional “facilitators” to chair informal discussions in which every member of Synod, including the bishops and Archbishops, were asked how the defeat of the measure made them “feel”…
Read it all and see also earlier account from a participant, Bathwellschap here and Peter Ould’s comment here
Beware of facilitated discussions, but this drama thing sounds nuts.
[blockquote]But one traditionalist said: “It is official – the Church of England has gone stark raving mad.†[/blockquote]
Nauseating. Any decision regarding WO should be based on the Bible and the guidance of the Holy Spirit, not the touchy-feely psychogarbage of the 21st century relativism.
Heh. It sounds *exactly* like TEC General Conventions. And we said it would be ten years, before the COE sunk to the level of vacuity and emoting that TEC General Conventions have been at for decades now.
Scary that Church decisions are being based on transient feelings in what are evidently peer-pressure exercises in groupthink.