If the AC is ready to go for a non-British ABC, +Ndungane gets my "vote"! :-D

"I always feel very safe when I enter an aircraft and see in the cockpit that a woman is either first officer or pilot." Archbishop Ndungane

Me too your Grace, up, up and away...but I'm not certain how secure I feel with ++Akinola having a piloting "stick" in his hand...I think I'd get off and take the next available flight on a different airline.

Thanks so very much to ABSA Ndungane for his positive, thoughtful remarks. One wonders what it is that renders him so eloquent and direct, while Canterbury and others in leadership remain so negative, obtuse and tongue-tied?

From the evidence of the work and words of Desmond Tutu and what Archbishop Ndungane has written lately, it seems that the crucible of oppression and suffering can bring forth real gold. I hope ++Williams is listening to these African voices, as well as that of ++Akinola.

Opposite side of the coin to the Newark election - the diocese of South Carolina has announced the names of three candidates for bishop of South Carolina. The diocese is one of the six ECUSA dioceses to have recently requested "alternative primatial oversight". The list of candidates is at http://www.dioceseofsc.org/. It's a pretty stacked deck. One of the candidates, Ellis Brust is Chief Operating Officer and Chaplain to the President of the American Anglican Council and the answers of all three to the question "what is your position on the issues currently facing the Episcopal Church and the Anglican Communion?" reflect a closely-related point of view. The election is scheduled for 16th September.

How true! Perhaps some restraint should be exercised by those who wish to pack the ECUSA HoB's with such candidates. Who could blame those of a less fundatmentalist approach and who acknowledge the operation of the Holy Spirit as to leading into all truth from deciding that restraint, if not for both ends of the spectrum is for none.