Thursday
Feb222007
Jordan Hylden: What Happened in Tanzania
Thursday, February 22, 2007 at 02:52PM It has been a long road, and much uncertainty lies ahead. But what uncertainty remains is principally related to the decisions now facing the Episcopal Church. As for the Anglican Communion, its choice has been made. Years from now, it may well be that we will look upon this week as a crucial turning-point in Anglican history, crucial as anything since the English Reformation.
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It is competing with:
16th.century:First communion in North America at Frobischer Bay.
17th.century:King James bible.
18th.century:Wilberforce and the abolition of slavery
19th.century:The worldwide missionary movement by CMS, CIM and others.
20th.century:The Christian response to the century of Secular Humanism and genocide with the fall of apartheid and communism.
I also wish the raiders and the riders well for their chances this season.
Seriously though,I have read the rest of this article and others on this meeting, and we are still at the stage of words rather than real sanctions actually being applied, let alone real support for congregations and individuals that find themselves on the wrong side of a line drawn centuries ago.
Having different congregations subject to different bishops while being in the same geographical area is no big deal (except to the bishops,I suppose) and has applied for a least a century in mainland Europe; here in Canada, including New Westminster, since the Anglican-Lutherean agreement almost a decade ago, and even in England, almost every diocese has a living (parish) appointed by the archbishop.The alternative of angry, independant bodies with leaders accountable only to themselves and those they draw around them is much more dangerous in every way.