“There’s no question in my mind that on the agenda will be the subject of the Anglican Church in North America (ACNA), and its place in the life of the communion, the place of Archbishop Foley [Beach] with the primates,” Hiltz said in an interview.
Beach, head of the breakaway conservative group ACNA, has been invited to attend the first day of the gathering, but Hiltz said some primates might insist on his full attendance.
“I have a sense, though, that there will be some that will exert some pressure on [Welby] with respect to wanting to have Archbishop Foley continue to stay for the meeting,” Hiltz said. “I am hoping to get a clearer picture”¦of what he [Welby] sees as the dynamics around our actual gathering, and our actual staying together for the course of the whole meeting.”
Hiltz said he had heard “rumblings here and there” that some of the more conservative primates might refuse to participate in the meeting if Beach is not allowed to attend. He said, however, that he believes it is still possible for a good meeting to be had if it is organized properly.
Read it all from the Anglican Journal.
So we are going to have a meeting about gun control and global warming? The only thing I can say is that AB Beach is NOT a member of a breakaway group, but Hiltz and Curry head the breakaway group.
He says he wants to discuss “the refugee crisis and sustainable development.” I can see a call to discuss the first item, particularly the brutality and elimination being aimed at Middle Eastern Christians, including Anglicans. “Sustainable development” is one of those fuzzy terms which ends up meaning whatever political agenda the speaker has in mind. They could do without that, since “domestic affairs within the household of faith,” as he puts it, are their primary calling at this time.
It sounds as if he doesn’t want to participate if +Beach does, and conservative primates don’t want to participate if +Beach doesn’t. Isn’t he worried about not being “inclusive?”
In the end the article doesn’t say much, which is not a criticism – nothing much is being said by anyone who knows, about what is going to happen.