++Orombi really made a mess of this. Uganda were missing three votes because of his absence and that of an episcopal and a clerical rep. Those extra votes would have meant the fourth, so-called moratorium on litigation, was included, and may have made a difference in the Covenant debate and votes.

Even his chief cheerleader Stephen Noll has been as critical as he can bring himself to be, while still spinning it as probably for the best! :-)

"Archbishop Orombi was the duly elected representative from Africa on the Joint Standing Committee. His own delegation was reduced by the absence of one bishop and one priest, and the alternate to the latter, the Rev. Phil Ashey, was cynically unseated by the JSC. The politician in me was disappointed by Henry Orombi’s choice to preach at a renewal conference in UK rather than to attend this important meeting. Maybe if he had been in Jamaica, we would have gotten the three votes needed to pass the Covenant. But on the other hand, his decision may reflect the utter breakdown of trust between many bishops in the Communion and Canterbury and the Communion bureaucracy. Who is to say the establishment would not have found a way to scuttle the Covenant even with Abp. Orombi present?"
http://www.stephenswitness.com/2009/05/anglican-communion-covenant-where-do-we.html

"++Orombi really made a mess of this. Uganda were missing three votes because of his absence and that of an episcopal and a clerical rep. Those extra votes would have meant the fourth, so-called moratorium on litigation, was included, and may have made a difference in the Covenant debate and votes." - MJ on Saturday -

How difficult it must be for Archbishop Orombi to decided what to do for the best: Even his ploy to get one of his American-based colleagues on to the A.C. Council failed (and what a tanrum that caused!). When will he, and others in the GAFCON, learn that manipulation is an art - even when what actually takes place is not really seen as manipulation but what most of us would recognize as 'due process' (i.e. not indaba)

God uses some mysterious ways: His wonders to perform!

What a joy to hear the encouraging remarks from the 2 ecumenical speakers (1 Orthodox, 1 Lutheran) on the podcast from the press conference on this thread. Both value their close association with the Anglican Communion, and both have warned against building walls rather than bridges - between different parts of the Church. This should give the secessionists pause for thought about what they have already done within the Communion to separate themselves from the rest of us on the grounds of their self-proclaimed 'orthodoxy'.

How much more clearly do we need to have it demonstrated to us as Anglican believers? Realignment is saying, and has always said: Do Anglican my way or I will do all I can to tear things up for everybody. I alone am doing God's will, so either I take over and run Anglicans, or I tear up global Anglicanism all I can, so that damage is done.

Add - PS. Any damage I may do is somebody else's fault for not going Anglican according to my special realignment ways.

The core message hasn't changed, nor have most of the effective plans or strategies. Realignment has really been quite open about realignment.

It's all the rest of us who may still cling to denials about what the conservatives plan or intend. They really will, seriously, take over and conform all via some new confessionalisms, or they will tear down the walls and set relationships on fire as they haughtily preach and exit.