The Global South's Way Forward

By way of Thinking Anglicans, the Convocation of Anglicans in North America (CANA) has published a report first delivered on September of 2006, (I don't know if this has been reported before, but it's news to me now.) The key to the report (which was submitted to the CAPA [Council of Anglican Provinces in Africa, not the same as CANA] Primates by a study group of unnamed individuals) is this:

The churches in Africa, while grateful for the overall judgement of the Windsor Report, felt that it often did not go far enough in spelling out the needed steps of repentance and return. In various responses to the Windsor Report, member churches made the following points:

* That full repentance in word and action is called for by those who have violated God's holy will in Scripture;
* That this repentance would include the resignation or removal from office of Gene Robinson and the passage of legislation which would bar any similar ordinations of priests and consecrations of bishops;
* That this repentance would include a reaffirmation of the biblical standard of marriage as the lifelong union of one man and one woman and the exclusion of all other configurations as a violation of that standard;
* That responses from our provinces to requests for alternative oversight from churches in North America are of an emergency order and not to be compared to the full and blatant violations of biblical morality by the churches of North America.

Seems pretty clear. I'm saddened, especially after having read and heard celebrated the unity that Jesus both calls us to and promises in John 17: 20-26 from Sunday's gospel.

The hand cannot say to the eye, "I have no need of you!"

RFSJ

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