Thinking Anglicans carries this news comment on the defeat of the Covenant in the Church of England:
…Speaking on Monday, Dr Williams said: “This is, of course, a disappointing outcome for many of us in the Church of England and many more in the Communion. Unfortunately, the challenges the Covenant was meant to address will not go away just because people vote against it.
“We shall still have to work at vehicles for consultation and managing disagreement. And nothing should lessen the priority of sustaining relationships, especially with some of those smaller and vulnerable Churches for whom strong international links are so crucial.”
The blinkers still seem to be attached. What this defeat has said is that the Church of England wants to hold on to its Anglican heritage of unity in diversity, and has overwhelmingly voted against any ecclesiastical vehicle "for consultation and managing disagreement".
It appears that as our Archbishop starts to pack his bags for the airy corridors of academia he still doesn't understand this, and nor do the majority of our Bishops.
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My fear is that, "We shall still have to work at vehicles for consultation and managing disagreement," means that he will continue to use the undemocratic instruments of the Communion, such as Primates' meetings and the like, to punish those who disagree with him and his friends.
ReplyDeleteFriends? I thought he only had minions.
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