This is HUGE. This is ONLY way to fight the apostasy is to have a common goal within the conservative Anglican Communion breakaway splinter groups. The ACN needs to draw more of the splinters in but a united conservative alternative in North America will certainly have far more clout with the Archbishop of Canterbury and the Lambeth Commission. I can now see, just like the ACN now sees, that THIS is the future of official Anglicanism in North America. Perhaps within the next 6 months, this will be accepted as the new North American province with ECUSA and the ACCanada rightfully kicked out.
Well, yes ... and there's the rub. It's one thing to have a common goal, and quite another to actually become a coherent group. Note well Bp. Duncan's comment: "This is not a statement of organic unity -- far from it...."
The various Anglican splinter groups are a fractious bunch -- which is how they got to be splinter groups in the first place. This is certainly a welcome development, but it is important to be clear that it is merely a discussion group at this point.
For this truly to be meaningful would require these various groups to propose to come together as a truly organic body -- to offer themselves as an orthodox "replacement province" for the ECUSA. Bob Duncan is apparently trying to steer things in that direction ... no doubt with himself as the first Presiding Bishop.
The letter to the ABC seems to be anticipating some sort of expulsion of the current ECUSA. The claim of 200,000 communicants is probably correct, and most of them probably do go to church most Sundays -- which makes this group something like 25% of the average attendance across the ECUSA: IOW, a pretty good start, though not that impressive when compared to other denominations.