Tag: Anglican Covenant

“What a shocking waste of a Church, and what a disgraceful response to a glorious ministry,” Gledhill writes in anticipating what happens if the Covenant is adopted. “It is illogical to proceed with women bishops while denying homosexuals full participation. Who are we to say that all are not made in God’s image?”

Rounding up the news and essays on the Anglican Covenant. Next week General Synod will vote on the Covenant. If it does not pass that is the end of it. If it does pass it will go to the dioceses of the Church of England and back to General Synod.

…a point by point examination of the entire document with charts of the relationships of the various so-called Instruments of Unity and how an issue would be handled if the Covenant is passed.

The wording of the Covenant is designed to legitimate future such threats whenever objectors kick up a fuss . . . In effect, those who make the most convincing threats of schism will be enabled to hold the rest of us to ransom, as they have just done.

UPDATED: See below Modern Church has mailed the following to every General Synod member. This and other articles critical of the proposed Anglican Covenant in

The Anglican Communion Office (ACO) has issued a