Tag: Anglican Covenant

Canadian Anglicans may expect a vote in a few years’ time at General Synod on the question of the Anglican Covenant.

Thinking Anglicans is reporting that the Diocese of Birmingham has become the third English diocese to vote to reject the Anglican Covenant. A later report indicates Truro has voted against the covenant as well.

Humility, Provinciality, and Variety … stand in the via media between Humiliation, Provincialism, and Chaos at one extreme, and Pride, Centralism and Uniformity at the other.

Savi Hensman reports on a better and older Anglican Covenant in

… the synod of the Diocese of St. Edmundsbury and Ipswich of the Church of England has voted against the Covenant. The synod tally as of today is split 2 for – 2 against.

Maori Anglicans in New Zealand have rejected the Anglican Covenant as out of keeping with the constitution of the Anglican Church in Aotearoa, New Zealand and Polynesia, because it seeks to impose by law what should be accomplished through relationship.

This resolution was adopted with no opposition at the Diocesan Convention of the Episcopal Diocese of Eastern Oregon on Oct. 16, 2011.

“God does not make second class people, how could our church now endorse making some people second class Anglicans?”

Surely this is just the beginning of a soon-to-be-growing list. If your diocese will be debating the Anglican Covenant – or at least entertaining the question of debate on resolutions about the proposed Covenant – let us know.

Yes, there’s some work being done on the Instruments of Communion, but not for the reasons cited by Goddard. And there are no foreseen implications for the proposed Anglican Covenant.