If you’ve got an endless appetite for clueless British bishop pontificating on the state of the Episcopal Church, have a look at this essay by Bishop Michael Scott-Joynt in The Church of England Newspaper.
Mark Harris has an analysis of the significance of this piece, and I think and hope that my good friend is wrong. He believes that N. T. Wright and Scott-Joynt have been acting, and are now speaking, in Rowan Williams’ stead. I don’t. Partly because people in the U. K. have told me that Williams didn’t authorize their activities, but didn’t try to stop them, either, and partly because this doesn’t strike me as the kind of noise you make in the press before a big meeting if your side has the meeting wired. If you are certain of a favorable outcome, you keep your mouth shut and don’t risk disturbing the favorable status quo.
Of course, I could be wrong. I am hoping to distinguish myself in the blogging community by making no predictions about what is going to happen in Tanzania.