It does not lay out a timeline or suggest a new way forward to unifying the Anglican Communion around the mainstream Christian consensus on issues of human sexuality. Instead, it offers general support for ongoing initiatives that were first suggested in the 2004 Windsor Report and subsequent meetings of the primates of the Anglican Communion, such as the Anglican Communion Covenant and the proposed moratoria on same sex blessings, the election of bishops in same-sex relationships, and bishops taking foreign parishes and dioceses into their churches.
The indaba document also expresses general support for the creation of the latest in a long line of committees and commissions intended to offer some relief to faithful Anglicans who have been forced into conflict or have had to leave their dioceses or national churches. This latest effort, called the “Pastoral Forum,” has no clear timeline, authority, budget, or membership.
A number of Network bishops attended the Lambeth Conference. Writing after the conference concluded, Bishop Mark Lawrence of South Carolina stated, “I had come to speak a word of hope and perhaps to intervene on behalf of our beloved, but in the last resolve the family refused the long needed measures.”
No decision is a decision.
A decision that things won’t change, and TEC will get nothing more than a “Tut-tut, mustn’t misbehave, children,” and they’ll get a rap on the fingers with a ruler and be told not to do it again.
I never expected anything substantive to come out of this bishopric boondoggle; however, I did have a faint hope that the ABC or one of his mouthpieces (yoo-hoo, +Durham!) would condemn TEC’s “slash and burn” litigation against the faithful.
Actually the LC did decide not to save the Anglican Communion.