Recent changes within the Standing Committee of the Anglican Communion have many bewildered and begging clarification:
Which resignations, precisely, have been signed, sealed, delivered? Is anyone just playing hooky at this point? Is there any way to see these epistles so they don’t have to exist behind subscriber-service barriers?
What criteria were in place for the selection of new members to replace those who’d resigned?
Under which set of constitutional provisions did these things occur: The new one? The old one? The “existing” one? The “similar” one?
Who exactly comprises the Standing Committee at this moment? (We think we know the answer to this question now, but why did someone have to go digging for it?)
May we suggest that the era of novelty, in which an entity with this much sway could merely hang out its shingle on the Web and not regard Internet communications as an essential component of any strategy, is over. Our Standing Committee (please note the use of the plural possessive) can no longer hold so many cards so close and expect us to track change or to know how to pray with and for them in their work.
The worst of this is that so much of what is desired is a simple transmission of information that is already held and known by a few, that needs to be held and known by all, so the field is level.
Oh, and we should have said: Please. Thank you.