Episcopal Church experts and disaffected conservatives predicted yesterday that intense lobbying would soon begin over dissidents’ plans to leave the church and create a new Anglican community in the United States.
The two sides will try to convince Anglican leaders worldwide either of the value or the cost of a second branch of the U.S. church, one that would be based less on geography than on theology.
Bishop Martyn Minns, a Virginia-based leader of the breakaway movement, confidently predicted victory. “I think we’ve got a good basis of support for what we’re doing,” he said.
[blockquote]Anglican melee[/blockquote]
What a great mental image of dainty English vicars throwing crumpets and marmite.
For the Washington Post – a very balanced article. I would quibble on one point: The overriding issue with Gene Robinson is not that he is “openly gay” but that he is a non-celibate gay.
Liberals may whine and complain all they like, but their fussing and fuming will make little difference. Time is on the side of the FCA/CCP movement that now bears the name ACNA (Anglican Church in North America). Liberal, heretical TEC will continue to decline inexorably; while the new province in formation will continue to grow. It’s entirely possible that scores of parishes, and perhaps whole dioceses like Albany, South Carolina, or Western Kansas will depart TEC and join the first four that have already gone.
I’d be surprised if +Minns actually thinks that this new emerging province will already have the necessary 2/3 support at the upcoming AAC meeting in May, 2009 to gain formal admission to the AC at that time. But I’m confident that he, and the other ACNA bishops, are willing to wait patiently and keep working toward the eventual acceptance of the reality of this alternative Anglican presence on this continent.
Advent is a time when we hear about John the Baptist as the forerunner of Jesus (2nd and 3rd Sundays). Recall what the Gospel of John reports about that fiery prophet, who humbly accepted his role as the one preparing the way for the Messiah and didn’t claim to be the Messiah himself: “He must increase; I must decrease.”
Well, I think the same could be said about the two main Anglican jurisdictions in North America. The ACNA must and will surely increase;TEC and the ACoC must and will decrease.
David Handy+
Father Handy writes,
[blockquote] I’d be surprised if +Minns actually thinks that this new emerging province will already have the necessary 2/3 support at the upcoming AAC meeting in May, 2009 to gain formal admission to the AC at that time. But I’m confident that he, and the other ACNA bishops, are willing to wait patiently and keep working toward the eventual acceptance of the reality of this alternative Anglican presence on this continent.[/blockquote]
This echoes something that Dr Noll wrote (see [url=http://www.anglican-mainstream.net/2008/12/05/the-future-of-the-anglican-church-in-north-america/ ]here[/url] or [url=http://www.standfirminfaith.com/index.php/site/article/18357/#309499 ]here[/url] but apparently don’t see [url=http://www.standfirminfaith.com/index.php/site/article/18356/#309570 ]here[/url]):
[blockquote] Would they like recognition by the “Instruments†of the Communion? Sure. Do they consider that such recognition is the only means of recognition? No, they do not. Are they willing to wait for full and final recognition in a reformed Communion? You bet.[/blockquote]
Also, the comment section is a great way to open the eyes of a few torporific Episcopalian pew potatoes. You can see my contribution in the comment section of this article (and quite a few more similar articles).
“Episcopal Church experts”
Ya gotta love the people in Washington.
I dearly wish that once, JUST ONCE a media article explaining why matters came to a head would finish the sentence….
with
But no. I continue to dream for fair treatment…
KTF!…mrb
Now, Marion R., there is an expertise in the ECUSA/TEC/GCC/EO-PAC! No one else is better adapted to driving away people with a one-issue agenda. Reduction of 2020 to actually having 20 members in the organization by 2020 AD is requisite of such expertise. If any other institutions need this expertise, see 815.