Since 2003, a significant number of primates have attempted to use the Primates Meeting as an opportunity to inflict damage on the Episcopal Church, preferably by replacing it with the Anglican Church in North America. Am I wrong in thinking that it is in the best interest of our Church for these meetings not to occur–or to occur without our adversaries present?
The Archbishop of Cape Town, the Most Revd. Thabo Makgoba, said yesterday that one of his dreams during his term of office was to consecrate the Church’s first woman bishop
The ACNS reports the primates of the Anglican Communion will meet in Ireland January 25-31, 2011. Read it here.
Following the example set by his primate, Bishop Azad Marshall of the Diocese of Iran has walked away from the Anglican Communion’s Standing Committee, the Church of England Newspaperreports.
“Highlight of the event was the presentation of the keys to a duplex, located at Gudu District of Abuja Metropolis and a Mercedes Benz E300 car to Akinola by the church.”
“What would really happen when serious disagreements arise among churches of the Anglican Communion?”
Almost every recent document dealing with Anglican governance speaks of the Instruments of Communion as though they are well-established and widely supported. Yet the attempt to invest these instruments with ecclesiastical authority is barely a decade old, has never been examined in any formal way by the member Churches of the Communion and has never even been approved by the so-called instruments themselves.
The two principal documents released by the Primates at their recent meeting in Alexandria, Egypt, namely The Primates Communiqué and the Report of the Windsor Continuation Group are a study in contrast.
The behavior of conservative primates and advocacy groups at the recently-concluded Primates Meeting in Alexandria, Egypt and the comments of Bishop Gregory Venables in this interivew with George Conger suggest a change in the strategy, and perhaps the aims of the anti-gay faction in the Anglican Communion.
The report of the Windsor Continuation Group may well be a more important document than the communique released earlier today by the Primates of the Anglican Communion. We offer a link, some of the highlights and a little commentary.