This article makes it sound as if the ABoC initiated the trip to Anaheim in order to plea for restraint from TEC.  I think that’s misleading.  As far as I can tell, ++RW was invited by ++KJS to come, and his appeal for restraint was very, very mild and half-hearted indeed.  Not likely to sway anyone.

What’s interesting to me here is the report that +N. T. Wright is cited as saying that the General Synod that’s about to begin in the CoE is considering backing the start up of the ACNA.  It’s not clear from the article that +Wright himself actually supports the formation of the ACNA, and it’s likely that the reporter got that wrong too.  For as a key figure in drafting the Windsor Report and a firm supporter of the ACI, Wright has always opposed the idea of parallel Anglican jurisdictions in the same place.  I’d be very surprised if he’d suddenly decided to support the formation of the FCA in England, much less to endorse the ACNA on our side of the Pond.

What I think the report indicates is that the establishment of the FCA in England is already changing the dynamics of life within the CoE.  It’s always good to be pro-active.

David Handy+

I don’t know. Other commentors on other blog posts in the past have spoken about the ABoC’s strategy of delay-delay-delay; do anything to delay the final resolution of the issue since it will inevitably lead to a split. We don’t know what kind of arm twisting he is doing behind the scenes, but the posts about the divide between the HOD and the HOB seem to indicate that this delay strategy may very well be working.

Dozens of members of the General Synod have backed a motion that calls on the Church to recognise a breakaway movement in the US opposed to the pro-gay agenda.

I’m eager to see English “conservatives” pushing their agenda ... as ultimately this will cause Church of England moderates & liberals to stand with the Episcopal Church of the United States.

I’m eager to see English “conservatives” pushing their agenda ... as ultimately this will cause Church of England moderates & liberals to stand with the Episcopal Church of the United States.

They can hold hands and jump together.  Won’t it be romantic?

Oh, my, YES!!!!!!!!!!

And the Scots can make it a three-some.  Real polyamorists leaping the cliff hand-in-hand all ending in the See of the Episcopal Church USA-gay (or GAY-usa, you choose).

What music should the background have to maximize the emotional catharsis, do you think?  Something orizinal for the synthesizer and entirely inapposite natural tones, I should think.

“What music should the background have to maximize the emotional catharsis, do you think?”

no contest about that - ‘I will survive’ by Gloria Gaynor - as they hurtle toward the rocks-which-weren’t-supposed-to-be-there…

[5] dwstroudmd,

Either

(s)omething ori(g)inal for the synthesizer and entirely inapposite natural tones

or, alternatively, one of the more ominous symphonic mass versions of a Dies Irae, perhaps?

Pax et bonum,
Keith Töpfer