People continue to go back and forth about the proposed Anglican covenant, perhaps more so (if possible) since Archbishop Williams’ July 27 essay, Communion, Covenant, and Our Anglican Future, in which he commented on the actions of General Convention. The upshot of Cantuar’s piece is that a Covenant is desperately needed if there is to be an Anglican Communion, that is, a \u201ctheologically coherent ‘community of Christian communities’.\u201d\u009d<\/p>\n
More recently, a group of Episcopal scholars, along with the Bishop of Durham, has opined that the 2009 General Convention has already rejected the Covenant, particularly in Resolution D025\u201d\u201dbrushing aside the last (and in rhetoric, the most important) paragraph that acknowledges continuing disagreement among Episcopalians on how to fully include gay and lesbian people in the life of the church. This piece seems to deploy a \u201chermeneutic of deep suspicion\u201d\u009d\u201d\u201dthat is, if they say one thing, they really mean the contrary. Up means down, right means left…you get the picture.<\/p>\n
Let\u2019s all try to remember D020. Convention 2009 asked all the dioceses to consider carefully a Covenant draft which is still not out yet.<\/p>\n