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OK, my column is out for this week and I am getting tired of reading Anglican stories. Speaking of which, have any of you out in GetReligion reader-land seen any Anglican stories that you want to nominate for special awards? Best? Worst? I realize that these designations may flip-flop, depending on one’s creedal affiliation. But give it a try.
For most of Monday it appeared that only conservative Episcopalians felt angry or disappointed in the Windsor Report. Their expectations were fed by inaccurate Times (London) reports of the Episcopal Church being expelled or, as recently as this weekend, of a “star chamber” judging whether entire provinces should be expelled.
A few months ago there was this. As an Orthodoxer myself, I am still not quite sure how I feel about seeing the words “Prince Charles” and “Mount Athos” in the same sentence every now and then. Might he convert? What does his non-wife say?
Don’t you hate it when you have a great quote and you cannot remember who said it? Long ago, someone offered the following summation of how the Anglican Communion works. I have heard it many times since then.
Presiding Bishop Frank Griswold of the Episcopal Church has responded to Archbishop Peter Akinola’s description of a private conversation with Griswold. (Today’s picture shows Griswold, Akinola and Desmond Tutu together at a U.S. House of Bishops meeting in 2002.)
I returned late Tuesday from a last-minute trip to Washington to hear Peter Akinola, the primate of the Church of Nigeria, discuss his plans to launch a U.S. alternative to the Episcopal Church. (The picture shows Akinola greeting Presiding Bishop Frank Griswold at a meeting of the Episcopal Church’s House of Bishops in 2002.)
” … in Communion with the U.S. rebel alliance and not the empire based in the denominational headquarters in New York City?”
Before we move on to some serious news articles about the conflict in the worldwide Anglican Communion, let us first pay a brief visit to the community announcement columns of the Louisville Courier-Journal.
Richard Major has filed a report for The Tablet on Archbishop George Carey’s visit to Truro Episcopal Church (beret tip: Simon Sarmiento). It’s a basic but flawed narrative of what has transpired in the broader Anglican Communion since the consecration of Gene Robinson as the Episcopal Church’s first openly gay bishop.
