Traditional Anglican ping, continued in memory of its founder Arlin Adams. Nice to see the good guys planning ahead..way ahead..Anyone who thinks this has all happened overnight also thinks the memos that Dan Rather got were genuine..BTWE..off topic, but have you seeen anything further on the Dennis thing since Louie Crewe's missive?
The progressives seem to have a problem with the so-called "top-down" approach, but it seems to me that the hierarchical Catholics have done a much better job of maintaining orthodox doctrine than the supposedly more "democratic" Anglicans.
The real problem isn't democracy per se, though-- it's the fact that the sorts of people who get involved in church politics tend to lean heavily left, heavily activist. After all, what sort of person joins a church in order to shift it all around? Only an activist, a progressive. Conservatives join a church to WORSHIP GOD.
John Derbyshire has a theory on this-- he says that any organization that isn't explicitly and determinedly conservative will, over time, move to the left. I think he's right, but the dynamic is a total perversion of everything a church is supposed to be about.
I don't know what the answer is, but it's clear to me that the road the Anglican communion has travelled isn't it.