Network Council: Moderator’s Address

If Canterbury can find a way to recognize the spiritual legitimacy of the claim of the Network Dioceses (and of the Network Parishes in Non-Network Dioceses) … then Canterbury sustains and renews his claim to be “gatherer” and “moral voice” of the Communion. To do this, he must bring along a strong majority of the Primates and of his own House of Bishops, for he is no pope. But do this he must. If he fails, any hope for a Communion-unifying solution slips away, and so does the shape and leadership of the Anglican Communion as we have known them. Our prayers are with Rowan Williams now more than ever. It is a kairos moment, a crossroads of Church history.

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  1. “Thirty years of bitter division slipped away and we stood and sang the Doxology. This was a reformation of behavior....” from the attached text.

    Only in the Network Council can a move to suppress and exclude be called ‘reformation’. When did suppression become reformation? Perhaps, it was the day when the Serpant said, “you will become like God”.

    Posted by  on  08/22  at  11:40 PM
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