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Episcopal Church spokesman Daniel England said Saturday that Griswold understands that Akinola has strong feelings on the issue. "I'm sure the presiding bishop will be disappointed if the archbishop cannot join him at the communion table," he said.

This is clearly Griswold's take on the issue -- like Bill Clinton, it sounds like he's saying, "we'll just have to win." And this comment is a confident prediction that Frank and his elves will win.

Frank's confident assertion (through Mr. England) betrays a certainty that the recent letter to Eames was enough to win the day.

Here, I think, is yet another example of the revisionists' political tin ear. This smarmy little comment will be seen as a smack across the chops, not only of Abp. Akinola, but also the Eames commission, to the effect of, "they won't do anything meaningful."

I believe that Rowan Williams may really be beginning to understand the scope of his problem now, and is looking for a way to deal with the ECUSA and Canada that preserves the identity of those churches, while at the same time satisfying the orthodox provinces of the Communion.

There's one way to do that: to deal with the people in those churches who are causing the problems -- people like Ingham, Griswold, Robinson, and the rest.

Also, however, I believe we might well see some action taken against the AMiA, as they, too have been agents of schism in the church -- if nothing else, it will be a sop to the liberal side of the church.

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I seriously doubt they'll hit AMIA as that would be taken as a deliberate attack on Abp Yong and the other conservative Primates who back AMIA. In fact any such attack would almost guarantee further open resistance from the Global South Anglicans. Both rowan the fuzzy and abp eames are aware of this. My guess is that, at least for the present, AMIA will be the elephant that isn't in the room.