This is all so bizarre. To this Yank it reminds me of the heavy thinkers in high school who ran student government and passed convolted and very serious motions about the quality of food in the cafeteria.

Listen up folks!

There are people who are hungry, thirsty, naked, in prison, ill, oppressed, discriminated against, and wish for an end to hatred.... and I don't think they or Jesus give a tinker's damn about the shape or form of governance of the Anglican Communion.

They want to be fed, given water, be clothed, be freed, be made whole, be accepted as God's children.

They cry out for food, water, clothing, liberty, and an end to hatred and discrimination.

They are we. We are they.

Can someone please remind the ABC of this?

"The Council had originally been asked to send the entire (Ridley) text to the provinces. however some members were concerned about the practicalities outlined in section 4 of the Covenant: "Our Covenanted Life Together", which attempts to provide a method for resolving disputes in the Communion. Much of the concern centred on the provision, in pargraph 4.1.5, that "it shall be open to other Churches to adopt the Covenant" - cause it lacks a definition for "other Churches". ENS web-site.M. Schjonberg

Thank goodness the ACC has delayed sending the Ridley Draft in it's present form to the Provinces for ratification. To have allowed the dissenters - particularly the proposed "ACNA Province" - to take advantage of a 'back-door' membership of the Communion by means of this foggy description of 'other Churches' would have been a total disaster. Now that the shadowy intent of GAFCON and ACNA is brought into the light and dealt with properly by the Communion, Section 4 will surely have to be more precisly worded.

It should not surprise me that the outcome would have been different had some people succeeded in insisting that the Episcopal Church and the Anglican Church of Canada should not take part. But given that, I suppose, other members may have had misgivings about giving a carte blanche for the entrance of ACNA as the "replacement" for the two churches (or for that matter, any substitute "border-crossing" jurisdiction), it was bound to happen.

But it will only reinforce the feeling of victimhood some of our brothers and sisters are being whipped up to have.

It's dead.

http://pluralistspeaks.blogspot.com/2009/05/acc-lecture-interruption-resolution.html

Here is an instance of misrepresentation by ACU executive officer Rev. Philip Ashey, in his statement (below) on the Anglican Mainstream web-site, that he is a 'Ugandan delegate' together with Mrs Babirikamu.:

"Thank God for my fellow Ugandan delegate (who was seated) Mrs. Jolly Babirikamu, for her courage in calling the introduction of new resolutions which were out of order exactly what they were - Instruments of confusion"

The real fact is, that, though proposed by his Archbishop as Uganda's clerical delegate for membership of the ACC, this proposition was turned down, on the grounds that he was part of a cross-borders constituency, which could have no has no part in the composition of the ACC.

Mr Ashey is at Kingston as a representative of the Press. Why he needs to describe himself as a 'delegate' to the conference is beyond my comprehension - except perhaps to show contempt for the JSC of ACC who denied him that position.
Or; perhaps he, himself, is confused?

It does seem that most of the Press observers present - like David Virtue - are aligned with the conservative element.

They want to be fed, given water, be clothed, be freed, be made whole, be accepted as God's children.

They cry out for food, water, clothing, liberty, and an end to hatred and discrimination.

They are we. We are they.¨ Cynthia G.

Exactly. I often wonder if Archbishop Rowan has ANY idea about the current Church and Government sponsored anti-LGBT ¨witch hunts¨ in Uganda...or, the level of persecution that Anglicans, our families, our friends are facing in Nigeria. Or the promised NEW anti-lgbt legislation in Kenya? The ABC is very busy being defensive, like his spectacle yesterday of jumping up to defend the ¨whole Covenant.¨ He seems to be unaware that the old fortress of fear and hate and blind ignorance as it is crumbling down around HIM. No wonder, almost half the foundation is rotted and he isn´t looking at the REAL structural problems...he´s living in a world of PRETEND.

Can you imagine the HEALTHY SPIRITUAL environment Dr. Williams could rebuild if he kept a keen eye on, and spoke UP for ¨loving thy neighbor,¨ yes including LGBT outcasts in Africa/Liverpool, England and beyond...and if the ABC had preached for TOLERANCE and JUSTICE for ALL including the tormented/exploited, violated, shamed, blamed and raped citizens in corrupt Uganda, Nigeria, Sudan and Kenya?

Nope, it seems he´s been very busy plotting to perpetuate discrimination and excluding against *select* Anglicans at all levels of Churchlife at The Body of Christ.

I don´t think +Rowan Williams ever has understood the REAL damage that has been endlessly initiated, preached and instigated against fellow Christians and others AT The Anglican Communion. He is missing the REAL moral issues of today, tomorrow, in OUR lifetime. Encouraging justice while defending the very lives of the LGBT marginalized in Africa, Egypt, Jamaica (the most deadly in the Western Hemisphere), Iraq/Iran and beyond were never part of +Rowans ministry I don´t think, he ignores the bloodshed while tweeking his structural ¨plans¨...what is his stand on the rampant HATE CRIMES in Jamaica?

Defending a Anglican Communion Covenant scripted by Drexel Gomez (retired), Archbishop of Jamaica and the West Indies is far away from understanding and attempting to resolve the REAL life and death problem(s) WE are faced with!

The contrived Windsor Continuation ¨Group¨ and the ¨biased¨ Covenant Design ¨Teem¨ were/are not capable of spearheading valid ministry options for the spiritual needs of The Anglican Communion.

Archbishop Rowan has missed the Forest because of the Trees.

From the beginning of 'the job' Rowan Williams put religious bureaucracy above its people and human ethics and is simply going to pay the price for that focus. The outcome is the same as if he'd focused on people and ethics and failed with the bureaucracy, but with considerable more exasperation and annoyance from those he let down earlier on to those he has let down later on.

"One could be forgiven for thinking that the debate on Friday morning about the covenant was actually about matters of faith. However it was actually about the issues of property and litigation in the United States." - Chris Sugden

In his roundup on 'Anglican Mainstream' on the proceedings of Friday's debate, Mr Sugden draws attention to the fact that it was almost entirely taken up with matters of property legislation. What he, and others in the ACNA camp will not admit, is that the need for this debate came as a direct result of the attempt by the dissidents to steal the property of The Episcopal Church.

To blame TEC for the perceived 'waste of time' in the proceedings is nothing less than hypocritical but one guesses that there is going to be a lot more blame placed on others by Mr Sugden and his associates for what has transpired to be their humiliating defeat at ACC14.