Ashworth ended her article with this "These are... Anglicans worldwide who value the comprehensiveness of their branch of Christianity, who see the Communion as a place of debate, and who dread a Church of the Like-minded... we have been too preoccupied to notice: the secular commentators, who are happy to write off Christ’s Church as ill-informed, bad-tempered, and irrelevant. When even Christians are forced to agree with them, this is where the real damage starts."

There are elements of the church who are ill-informed, bad-tempered and irrelevant. Hushing it up so we don't embarass ourselves before the secularists, other faiths or denominations has enabled the hydra to grow way beyond reasonable boundaries. They are meant to huffily splinter off into puritan sects when they no longer can gain "repentance" from the bulk of the impure. They are not meant to go into a guerrilla warfare campaign to hijack the communion and plan further world domination, accusation and embodying as God's vengeful servants.

An illness that is not recognised by the body is more dangerous than one that causes a reaction. One of things I love about God is that every so often an infection becomes co-opted and becomes a powerhouse for a new thing. So for example, there were these aggressive little mitochondrial bacteria that somehow became woven into the DNA of a larger amoeba which gave animals an inbuilt combustion engine and thus mobility...

I quite like the idea of taking the best of puritan exhortations and co-opting that into an inclusive framework where righteous souls easily see the merits and aspire towards life-long monogamous relationships; in the context of caring for each other, their neighbours and Creation. Where we have the legal frameworks that enable all who aspire to such decent aspirations a reasonable chance to attempt to fulfill them.