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Let's count how many days have passed since the great feast of Pentecost... two weeks.
It took the powers-that-be 14 days instead of 24 hours to kick those members of The Episcopal Church off the relevant Anglican Communion committees — the Standing Committee and the Inter-Anglican Standing Commission on Unity, Faith and Order and the Inter Anglican ecumenical dialogue committee. I guess things have slowed down some? After all, the election of a certain fabulous candidate for bishop suffragan made comment within 24 hours. (As a reminder, it took a week for the ABC's office to acknowledge the near-assassination of one of the Anglican Communion's primates, the Archbishop of IARCA.)
The Church of Canada and Southern Cone are respectively being asked to 'clarify' their positions on not 'obeying the moratoria.' Guess border-crossing is less a threat to the uniformity of the communion than teh gays.
So once again, TEC is the ABC's favourite kicking post. The gut says let's pack up and go but that just means that in the vacuum, the more shrill and exclusionary voices will be heard.
Operating from the head, I say show up anyway and hold our heads high for there is nothing of which we are to be ashamed.
I can't really write too much because I am peeved enough with this basura to be coherent. All I can say is: More and more my plumbline is proving true:
Is a decision/teaching/attitude of Christ or of the Church? If those of the Church contradict those of Christ, then I eschew them.
Right now those decisions of this particular branch of the Church, in this particular office of a certain archbishop, are not anything remotely connected to those of Christ.
7 comments:
Caminante, your final paragraph says it all for me.
What Mimi said ... ditto. Well spoken.
Thank You, Caminante, I cross posted most of this...I hope it´s ok? Leonardo (all the corn crop is lost here too)
I'm pissed enough to say we've had enough.... otherwise, it just gets like an abused spouse going and looking for more and in the meantime supporting it with our $$$$ --so that we can get beat again....
It's bad, very bad.
I say go as a very expensive consultant and bill them for the time spent. TEC obviously has more knowledge and experience with living the Gospel than the CoE does. And TEC doesn't choose to consistently ignore the commandment about false witness in same sex relationships.
From what I'm reading, Canterbury can't dismiss us. Sooooo go to the meetings and ignore both men's pronouncements. We don't dare withdraw voluntarily or we could jeopardize all the lawsuits the schismatics have forced us to file?
Preach it!
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