I haven't been able to follow the Lambeth Conference like I wanted, and their website is terrible for giving news. However, I have heard that a new proposal has been given that suggests several things:
1. All homosexual marriages cease.
2. Ordination of homosexual and women bishops cease.
3. Clergy return to their proper, geographic diocese.
On paper this looks great. Liberal practices would be curbed, while conservative schismatics would be forced to reunite, as it were.
However, Fr. Dwight Longenecker has given a great commentary on the problems this will face and why in the long run it is just a farce. Check it out here.
In the end, I fail to see how the Anglican Communion will continue to stay unified. I am still convinced that within the next 2-3 years at the latest, we will see the Anglican Church cease to exist in the form we know it today.
Don't forget to pray.
2 comments:
Pray I will! This is definitely a hard time for the Anglican Communion. It is hard to know what will be best. We've had some priests starting new churches and leaving their some people from their congregations confused and upset.
As an Anglican, I think it is ridiculous that there is going to be a slipt over this issue.
How many times does the NT talk about unity? how many times does it talk about homsexuality?
Ridiculous!
I think there is space for different views.... the smartest thing the Anglican Canadian Community has done, is leave it in the particular parishes hands.
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