On one level, the current crisis in the Anglican Communion seems to demand an Anglican Covenant if the Communion, as it currently is ordered, is to hold. On the other hand, the order of the Communion is in
many ways only “apparent” and is, in any event, already ruptured.
Read it all here
04 July 2007 at 10:59 am
In case it’s of interest to readers, we had quite a lively discussion thread about this response at Canon Kendall Harmon’s TitusOneNine.
http://www.kendallharmon.net/t19/index.php/t19/article/4087/
Also, Virginia issued a response as well. Terribly disappointing to read the rejection by so many in the US of this kind of mutual interdependence and an effort to take a stand as to what we believe as Anglican Christians.
http://www.kendallharmon.net/t19/index.php/t19/article/4035/
05 July 2007 at 9:17 pm
As Episcopalians, we have good reason to suspect the capacity of the Primates to be fair adjudicators of these issues because they each come from their own particular cultural contexts and many of them have made individual and collective public statements concerning these matters. Their pre-determinations of the issues have been evident throughout the current crisis.
Not the Americans, of course. Nope, no cultural context there. No public statements or pre-determinations either. Completely neutral and mainstream, don’t you know ...
Meanwhile,same-sex activists are saying “If you love me, you’ll let me do what I want.” TEC is saying the same thing to Anglicans around the world. It’s the philosophy of your garden-variety 3-year-old.
What other biblically-defined sin has been elevated to the status of a “justice issue”? And in so doing rejects even the need for Christ’s transforming love through the power of the Holy Spirit?
For a Christian to say “I cannot change” is to reject the power of the Holy Spirit. Blaspheme the Holy Spirit, if you will. Rebellious hearts. Stiff necks.