While I’ve been away from the blog, Father Jake, Simon Sarmiento of Thinking Anglicans and Mark Harris have posted valuable updates on the troubling activities of Archbishop Peter Akinola, primate of the Anglican Church of Nigeria, leader of the movement to toss the Episcopal Church out of the Anglican Communion. (He has even founded a rival church in the US in October, 2004, but, thus-far, it has been almost invisible.)
Stephen Bates of the Guardian touches on similar issues in a column for the Church of England Newspaper, but touches, too, on what might most charitably be referred to as the erratic behavior of Archbishop Bernard Malango the primate of Central Africa who, like Akinola, is hot to get rid of the Episcopal Church.
Have a look at Bates’ column, and ask yourself why the leaders of the Anglican Communion continue to behave as though the consecration of gay bishops is the most pressing moral concern before the Communion, and why the Episcopal Church’s membership in the Communion should depend, in any way, on the good opinion of men who act in this fashion.