Updated
Since the close of this month’s meeting of the Anglican Consultative Council the Anglican Communion News Service has published a number of articles about its work, including these, all by Gavin Drake.
Reformation and unity in ACC’s ecumenical resolutions
Provinces urged to adopt Anglican Communion Sunday
Central Africa applied “embassy” protocol for ACC’s visiting female priests
Anglican Consultative Council adopts 45 resolutions by assent
Men and boys have role in fight for gender justice
Update
Before the ACC meeting, ACNS published this video: Gender justice and the Anglican Communion.
“There are several people who would ordain women to the priesthood tomorrow if they were together as one mind of the Province. That is part of the sacrificial waiting, sacrificial giving”
Argh, this CANARD again. Christianity talks about Christ and Christ-like OFFERING of “sacrifice”. Not IMPOSING it, which is what is going on here (women having their divine calls sacrificed by a male hierarchy exerting Power-Over).
‘ACC adopts 45 resolutions by assent’. Well, this really brightened up my morning. just like the Primates’ resolutions. Does anyone in any of your parishes even know who they are? Can we stop paying for this nonsense now?
How encouraging to have such an upbeat and positive response to the Lusaka gathering from the Canadian delegate. How unusual to have a glass half full report concerning the Anglican Communion when more often than not we usually have negative glass half empty or even glass totally drained responses. I look forward,one day, in eager anticipation to a “cup runneth over” report about the world wide Anglican Communion
Rod, you have read the ACNS story on the resolutions pretty much as I have, as an effort to say that nobody actually voted on anything except the ACC’s carbon footprint. This report has ACC members I have spoken to wondering why they were repeatedly asked to raise their hands if they were in favor or opposed to something. At some point an argument can become too silly to be worth winning, and I think the argument about the “consequences” has passed that point.
“… female bishops who toe the establishment line with regard to same sex marriage …” Ah yes, the leaders of the campaign for equal ordination, women who boldly took on the establishment, women who marched and lobbied and protested; but women who, the moment they got what they wanted, dropped their radicalism and parroted the exact same rhetoric that’d been used against them. I support equal ordination, of course I do, and many campaigners support equality across the board: but given the wholesale abandonment of LGBT people by its leading lights the moment they donned the purple, let’s not pretend… Read more »
How great Canada filed a happy report! Is that the same Anglican Church in Canada which is not going forward with gay marriage? How happy in the acc…
James Byron raises a valuable point: how many of the women consecrated as bishops are willing to cross the line on the collective position that gay and lesbian couples cannot share the joys, blessings and affirmations afforded to heterosexual couples? Human rights intersect, and are indivisible… because their suppression nearly always comes from the same problem with power and an embedded system of power. You can’t really champion women’s rights but not the rights of gay and lesbian people, (not to forget other minorities). If women simply gain consecration to become part of an establishment that repudiates gay and lesbian… Read more »
Rod, I used the gendered term ’cause you referred specifically to female bishops: if you’d referred to the entire bench, I’d have used a gender-neutral term.
As it happens, one of the worst offenders is George Carey, who called opposition to equal ordination heresy, while overseeing Lambeth ’98.
Susannah has it dead on: equality’s indivisible. Selective equality is nonsensical, and regardless of gender, many bishops have been craven, in England certainly, but also in Canada, in Australia, in every province that ran from equality so they could run with the crowd.