TLC: Archbishop Williams Calls for Patience from Primates
Archbishop Williams Calls for Patience from Primates
9/15/2006
The primates have a responsibility to provide leadership to the “ordinary people of God” during a time of “continuing uncertainty,” according to Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams. Archbishop Williams wrote the other 37 leaders of the Anglican Communion Sept. 14 asking them to exercise both leadership and restraint in the debates over human sexuality currently dividing the church.
Many Anglicans have become “puzzled, wearied, or disoriented by our present controversies,” he wrote, and were repelled by some of the “extreme or divisive” stances taken by some partisans.
Archbishop Williams thanked the primates for sending him their initial responses to the actions of the 75th General Convention in light of the February 2005 primates’ communiqué and the Windsor Report. He also outlined the “process currently going forward in the Communion to help all of us weigh and interpret Convention’s work.” The letter also included a brief summary of the findings to date of the primates’ advisory group.
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Does the Archbishop really think he can stall and delay making a decision about TEC for the many months and years it will take to create an Anglican Covenant?
I would love to hear his explanation of how anything coming out of General Convention 2006 indicated that ECUSA/TEC has <font face=“Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif” size=“2”> “taken very seriously the recommendations of the Windsor Report…" GC2006 certainly talked a good game, but talk is cheap. And I do imagine they were anxious to have input into the Anglican Covenant so that they could write it so as to allow them to continue to do their thing. But, to me, that is not an indication that they took the Dromantine Communiqué or the Windsor Report requests seriously. Otherwise their actions would have been clear demonstrations of that. </font>
Dr. Williams must think orthodox Anglicans in the US are fools if he thinks he can convince us that TEC was "serious" about Windsor.
[1] Posted by Allen Lewis on 9-16-2006 at 01:33 AM · [top]
Patience is part of the fruit of the Spirit, but there are limits. We are long past the time for decisive action. It is time to act now.
[2] Posted by Tony on 9-16-2006 at 09:47 AM · [top]
Allen Lewis, I agree with everything you have said on this thread and the other longer one about this same letter. The ABC’s remarks seem completely out of touch with the reality of what happened at GC 2006. Surely he cannot be serious about TEC taking the WR seriously.
[3] Posted by BettyLee Payne on 9-16-2006 at 09:13 PM · [top]
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