[Magdalen] TEC suspended from Anglican Communion

[Sally Davies]

I may be missing something or in denial, but as far as I can establish from
reading well informed commentary rather than popular press reports:

1. No church has been suspended, nor could it have been, by this meeting
2. The Communion is not glued together at all but experiences an organic
unity in a myriad levels of relationship and connection (including if I may
say so, this little Pub). This idea was first expressed by Archbishop Rowan
but has been picked up by many others since then.

3. The position of leadership figures in TEC seems to be, not to take this
as though it meant being attacked or robbed of something, but as a
challenge to respond with acts and expressions of love and generosity.

All this gives me hope.

Sally D

On Saturday, 16 January 2016, Marion Thompson <marionwhitevale at gmail.com>
wrote:

> I tend to lead from the heart rather than the head, but a Communion that
> is being glued together by such wrong-headed actions and pandering to me is
> not worth, as my mother would have said, 'the gunpowder to blow it to
> blazes with.'  Our General Synod in July should be interesting and with the
> outcome by no means clear.
>
> Marion, a pilgrim -- already late for a meeting of Diocesan Council!
>
> On 1/16/2016 5:26 AM, F von Prondzynski wrote:
>
>> Marion Thompson wrote:
>>
>> WOW WOW WOW!!!  I'm late to this story.  They've suspended the wrong
>>> people, but are we surprised?  Not a bit of it.   I hope we will stand
>>> shoulder to shoulder with TEC.  I see no use in the Communion at all.
>>> The days when we got all misty about the whole world using the same BCP
>>> all over the world on Sundays are long gone!
>>>
>> I do absolutely understand the anger felt in the US Episcopal Church over
>> this, and I think an horrendous mistake has been made (now if the
>> suspension has ben suggested because the US church insists on calling
>> itself TEC I might have been more sympathetic:)
>>
>> But I don't agree with Marion's implied view that there is no point to the
>> Anglican Communion, or that a shared worldwide liturgical framework has no
>> meaning. I think it does.
>>
>> My own view would be that a split has been inevitable for some time, and
>> that both Rowan Williams and Justin Welby have humoured the Africans (or
>> some of them) far too much. I would have said let them go their own way.
>>
>> Ferdinand
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