National Public Radio is on the case, as are the Anglican Scotist, the Modern Churchpeople’s Union and Michael and Susan, the unrelated Russells.
(Update: Inclusive Church has weighed in. So has Commonweal.)
The Scotist is especially insightful:
The very fact that the Communique makes GAFCON’s essential activity out to be catholic border crossing & poaching shows that GAFCON is too weak to sustain schism at the level of the Communion and that right wingers in the US and Canada are too weak to sustain schism on their own without help from abroad. The best that can be done–after five years of turmoil–is a redoubling of efforts to create a vampire, a province in North America “parallel” in some sense to those already there whose life comes from stealing the life of the provinces already there.
Michael Russell is also wise about the weaknesses of this movement:
There is no occasion since the fully public inception of this movement of them actually getting anything they wanted. Neither TEC nor the C of Canada have been sanctioned or side streamed, and the reasserters have not been proclaimed as the true Anglican presence by anyone with any actual authority to do that.
The promises made to parishioners that they would soon be the acknowledged by the Archbishop of Canterbury as the true presence has not and will not happen.
The Jerusalem Declaration has pinned its future to an arcane formulation of “authorities” that most Anglican provinces worldwide are not going to endorse: specifically the 39 Articles and the 1662 BCP as standards of the faith.
Nor will most of the Anglican provinces endorse their peculiar formulations and doctrine of Scripture as found in the Document.
So after a dozen years of planning and six years of bullying and threats, this movement has a smaller affiliation circle and less influence than five years ago.