Traditional Anglican ping, continued in memory of its founder Arlin Adams. Well, what would one say that hasn't already been said over and over?
Even speculation about why one would issue such a statement seems imprudent.
Anybody else?
Some of you expressed the sense that we are ready to release ourselves from our past history as a House and our preoccupation with what has been. I share this view.
'We are going to take our ball and go home if the rest of the communion tries to make us play by the rules.'
A. God doesn't wake up every morning and think he is Frank Griswold.
What total twaddle! Poor man is probably worn out by the obfuscation, avoidance, rationalization and other forms of mental gymnastics necessary to perpetrate this kind of dishonest &^*%&*!!
"I have long spoken of the "diverse center" as persons of different and often passionately held points of view whose over-arching desire has been to walk together as integral members of Christ's risen body in the service of mission to our broken world."
Is there something in the Bible or the Holy Tradition or the writings of the Fathers about the "diverse center" that I missed somewhere along the line? I am, after all, a sinful and simple fellow and quite easily could have overlooked it.
"Some of you expressed the sense that we are ready to release ourselves from our past history as a House and our preoccupation with what has been. I share this view. While self-examination is always an appropriate discipline for persons and communities of faith, it can become an invitation to inversion. Being overly focused on our internal life can obscure our call to be engaged in God's work beyond ourselves. Looking to the past is only helpful if it liberates us and orients us toward our future in God."
To me as an Orthodox Christian this is a most astonishing statement. Yesterday my formerly Congregational wife commented during a conversation with her sister that for her one of the most magnificent and comforting reasons for being Orthodox is that we believe and proclaim the exact same Faith and worship in virtually the exact same manner and with the exact same words as Orthodox Christians have for about 1700 years, but that from that secure history she has learned that in clinging to the Faith once revealed and worshipping the ineffable God, time is quite meaningless.
Past, future and now have no meaning in the Faith, though it may to each of us mortals individually.
Sadly, Griswold and his fellow travelers are simply heretics. These men have developed a new religion, which of course they are free to do. The Church teaches that we are to have nothing to do with them save to pray for them.