There are times when you’re not in the mood to see people – you’re having a fat day, you’re exhausted, upset or simply antisocial – but you have to.<\/p>\n
However difficult it may be to drag your sorry self away from the house there are always more advantages to going out than staying in. If only someone had told the Gafcon bishops this.<\/p>\n
At the Lambeth conference, few are bemoaning the absence of traditionalist Africans – except journalists scuttling around to make bricks out of hay – and the Americans are left calling the shots and, boy, are they doing it with gusto.<\/p>\n
Not content with bringing a battalion of pro-gay lobbyists to the sprawling University of Kent campus, the efficient US episcopal machine is also churning out daily – informal – briefings on what the mood is like and what is being said by whom. Think of it as a bishop a day keeps the schism away.<\/p>\n
They are also blogging as if their lives depended on it. It’s great for gossip-starved media, but bad news for organisers who were praying for a non-eventful event.<\/p>\n