Traditional Anglican ping, continued in memory of its founder Arlin Adams. "VOL: Some of your priests I spoke with were quite upset, with several using words like "betrayal", "backtracking", "caving in", "disaster"... to the point that they said it would have grave consequences on the church's ability to grow and more. A number of your North American priests believe Women's Ordination is a nose in the tent, a slippery slope to spiritual anarchy. How would you allay their fears? Are you concerned that it could ultimately divide you?
MURPHY: The nose in the tent is that we are in the Province of Rwanda. This Province believes in women's ordination (and is growing as a church) and they have assured us that they respect our decision and our position with respect to women's ordination to the Diaconate only. I believe them. We are encompassing two nations and two positions. This is not a new development. We are giving leadership to all who are part of the Province of Rwanda. It is simply a new charge to give leadership to all the Canonical letters."
What seems clear from this is that the justification for the African 'missionary' effort in North America is that Americans simply couldn't manage this aggiornamento thing without outside help. I will take this away with me as a striking reminder that the AMiA is not orthodox.
The issue remains humility before God and submission to His written word. Either you accept what God has said and follow Him or you go your own way. If Murphy is in fact as successful as he says, then the latter appears to have short-term benefits. Truth is, it always has had and it seems to me that AMiA just amounts to a variant way of splitting the difference between what the secular world is drifting to and what God has always required of us.