[Magdalen] TEC suspended from Anglican Communion

[Marion Thompson]

But tell that to the LGBTB et al.  Children of God who are being thrown 
under the bus -- again, or still -- for the sake of this one-sided 'unity'.

Marion, a pilgrim

On 1/16/2016 9:47 AM, Sally Davies wrote:
> 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
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>