Fuse, Burning [ECUSA]

Captain Yips Secret Journal ^ | 6/12/2006 | Jack White

[sionnsar]

For an occasion so expected, I find it impossible to put together any coherent comments about GC2006.  Maybe this is suitable; under a veneer of organization, conventions are chaotic and unpredictable.  So here are disorganized jottings and guesses.

• GC will produce a response to the Windsor Report that it will claim to be compliant, but won’t be.  The response will be as deliberately and carefully obscure as possible:  not fudge, but fog.  I suspect that single-sex marriage will be the crux.  A lot of folks are deeply committed to SSM.  They might be able to live with a moratorium on more Robinsons, but not on SSM.  Pure guesswork.

• None of the candidates for Presiding Bish inspire.  I have no idea who the front runner of the moment might be, or even if there can be said to be one.  I suspect that Bishop Parsley would make things as hard as he can on non-ECUSAoid parishes like mine.  The rest seem to be variations on Frank Griswold, with Bishop Alexander being the closest thing to The Next Frank.  If Alexander is the next PB, it will be a signal to the rest of the Anglican Communion much clearer than a foggy Windsor response.  I would not rule out Bp. Schori.  Phoebe Griswold has been saying that it’s a shame there aren’t any women at the Primates Meetings, hint hint.

• Lots of reasserters are unhappy with the cautious rhetoric of the Anglican Communion Network.  I’m not, really.  The Network seems to be attempting to establish that the departure, the schism, is on the official ECUSA side, not on theirs.  There are still plenty of solidly reasserting clergy and laity who are not happy with the idea of a fracture, so it’s important to make it as clear as possible who it is that’s creating the break.

• Rowan Williams is no fool.  If brought to the point, he will not sacrifice what unity the Anglican Communion has for a few hundred thousand North Americans, however wealthy. 

• A fractured Anglican Communion that excludes the Church of England makes no sense to me at all.

• Revision of the disciplinary canon is probably doomed, and a good thing, too.

Now, we wait.

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