{"id":10425,"date":"2008-12-30T03:18:02","date_gmt":"2008-12-30T03:18:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/paul_handley_the_anglican_communion_will_finally_split_in_2009\/"},"modified":"2008-12-30T03:18:02","modified_gmt":"2008-12-30T03:18:02","slug":"paul_handley_the_anglican_communion_will_finally_split_in_2009","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=10425","title":{"rendered":"Paul Handley: The Anglican Communion will finally split in 2009"},"content":{"rendered":"

…the game now is going to change from now on. The object has shifted from trying to reform the old Communion (by supplanting the liberals in the US) to forming a new one. Rowan’s task in the year ahead will thus change, too, from trying to hold together two disputatious groups in the same Church to trying to hold together two Churches. It can’t be done, especially now that he has lost the respect of the conservatives.<\/p>\n

So, schism in 2009? It certainly looks like it, and then the numbers belonging to each side start to matter. The conservatives in the US are in a clear minority, but when allied to the millions of Anglicans in, say, Nigeria or Uganda, they become a force to reckon with, however much the liberals would like us to ignore them.<\/p>\n

There are many things to like in this piece, but it is significantly marred by the fact that he gets wrong what happened in 2006 at the General Convention. There was no agreement on the bishops matter in the terms requested, and on blessings what was requested was clearly not agreed to. Since the Convention, there has been an increase in same sex blessings against the teaching and practice of the Anglican Communion. So it is simply nonsense to talk of a moratorium being lifted which doesn’t exist in practice throughout various parts of TEC. In any event, read it all–KSH<\/a><\/i>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

…the game now is going to change from now on. The object has shifted from trying to reform the old Communion (by supplanting the liberals in the US) to forming a new one. Rowan’s task in the year ahead will…<\/span><\/p>\n

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