Maybe this will be out on Good Friday

Design Group works on Anglican covenant revision

Text to be discussed by Anglican Consultative Council in May

By Matthew Davies

[Episcopal News Service] The group charged with "designing" a covenant that could be used as a unifying set of principles among the provinces of the Anglican Communion met March 30-April 3 in Cambridge, England to work on a new revision of the text.

"A completed revision of the proposed covenant has been finished, along with a commentary explaining our work," the Rev. Dr. Ephraim Radner, one of two Episcopal Church members on the Covenant Design Group, told ENS at the conclusion of the meeting. "We have taken seriously the array of responses received from the provinces and from around the communion and larger church."

The latest incarnation of the Anglican covenant, along with the design group's commentary, is expected to be "posted on the Anglican Communion website sometime next week," said Radner.

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After all, the Saint Andrew's draft emerged on Ash Wednesday.

It's hard not to be cynical: I can't help but think their logic is that by posting this document during Holy Week, its presence won't be noticed.

What the CDG did not take into consideration is that many would like the whole thing disappear back into the dustbin from whence it came.