Wednesday, November 24, 2010

Perspective on General Synod

I highly recommend reading MadPriest's analysis of what happened and where do we go from here on the vote taken in the Church of England's General Synod on the Anglican Covenant. As one might have expected, many of the votes made in favor of the reception of the Covenant and sending it along to the dioceses were done with held noses, and covered eyes. In short, there are many in the Church of England who know this document is only going to cause more legalistic nightmares and create needless enemies out of brothers and sisters of Christ. Now that the final draft can be voted on at the more local level, there is a better chance that some will say, "What's all this then?". So, the Archbishop of Canterbury and the other supporters of the Covenant can claim victory for now. But this discussion is definitely not done.
I attended our local interfaith Thanksgiving service last night. A couple of the speakers, an imam and a Buddhist abbot, spoke of seeing trouble and problems as portals to God as opposed to shut and locked doors. This would be the way I am approaching the ongoing months of debate on this Covenant. Time to keep plugging... or blogging... away!

1 comment:

Phoebe said...

And where is God? Crying with the rest of us that so much time is wasted instead of reaching out to the marginalised, the homeless, the grieving and those sick because of how their humanity is destroyed.