Even as Archbishop Williams delivered his up-beat, closing address to the Lambeth Conference, the English bishops of Exeter and Winchester called for the Church to recognize the inevitability of the split and to take steps to ensure that the coming separation was done in a peaceful and equitable manner.
Can anything be done to prevent the African and other conservative dioceses from forming a new church? There are only two actions that could prevent the split. If the U.S. and Canadian branches back down from their acceptance of the rights of gays within the church, or if these two branches themselves withdraw from the Anglican Communion.
[blockquote]Can anything be done to prevent the African and other conservative dioceses from forming a new church?[/blockquote]
They aren’t forming a new church…they are forming an enormous faction within the existing Anglican Communon, a faction that will battle the revisionist faction and, eventually, assume control of the Anglican Communion.
The ACoC would have to be dragged kicking and screaming from the Anglican Communion. It uses its membership as a cloak of respectability which gives it great cache at their trendy cocktail parties.
Either Mr. Flesher is in his title regaling us with his facility with puns, or else we have what Walker Percy called “mistake as metaphor.”
Wither, indeed!
Well, it’s no different than not knowing the difference (in spelling, anyhow) between “cache” and “cachet.”
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Humblest of apologies for the typo. Sorry to have troubled you so.
However, if you can’t see the difference between a typo and wanton apostasy, you definitely need a different vantage point.