tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22424136.post6945925095985829422..comments2024-01-29T06:25:17.244-05:00Comments on philorthodox: CANA, Nigeria and the Ordination of WomenThe Most Reverend Chandler Holder Jones, SSChttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06597996290993316169noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22424136.post-17094677226869713052006-12-08T09:54:00.000-05:002006-12-08T09:54:00.000-05:00Sad but not surprising really - most knew that ++A...Sad but not surprising really - most knew that ++Abuja is Protestant (like Mr Kensit's stone-throwers) so any alliance with Anglo-Catholics would be provisional at best and even fall short of communion.<br /><br />(Or 'let's re-create the Elizabethan compromise so it can fall apart again'.)<br /><br />Having had my home essentially destroyed I don't get any joy from a congregation losing its building and so on, even liberal Episcopal ones I obviously don't agree with... so I wish the new arrangements like CANA well even though there's really no place in them for me. And even though the larger church trumps everything else in my position on women clergy I recognise and honour those among them who are Christians - the new arrangements increasingly make sense for them. (But those who remain in TEC have a point that makes sense for them as long as that body remains on paper a Christian church.)<br /><br />What I wonder is how classically Anglican the new arrangements are for Central Churchmen like some good friends of mine or how susceptible are they to being swamped by American evangelicalism liturgically (throwing out the hymnal for Cursillo songs, praise bands and overhead projectors!) and otherwise like the divide in conservative Lutheranism.<br /><br />They have a future much like the Continuum of recruiting people who never were Episcopalians but in the new arrangements the risk of the above is great.<br /><br />I just hope my Central friends - not Catholic but 'part of my family' - have a Christian home in future. Of course I wish everybody were Catholic but the way is persuasion (true to English tolerant conservatism) not proselytism.Ecgberthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06354592772973677609noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22424136.post-83229182127557110362006-12-06T23:40:00.000-05:002006-12-06T23:40:00.000-05:00This is sad news to hear coming from a province th...This is sad news to hear coming from a province that is otherwise an outspoken advocate for Christian orthodoxy and for North American unity under such principles. <br />It will be interesting to see if +Minns and company will "practice what they preach" and exercise restraint in this area even if some personally feel differently. The shoe will be on the other foot so to speak.Davishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06625974161826321331noreply@blogger.com