COVENANT Number 20Get this entire issue in Adobe Acrobat (PDF) format ArticlesAnglican Communion 101Some probably know that The Episcopal Church is a member of the Anglican Communion, but don't know what that means, much less what it means to be suspended from it, "effectively" or not. So here's my take in "Anglican Communion 101," and perhaps this will lead to a better understanding. How to Quench the SpiritThe Windsor Report proposes a new polity for the Anglican Communion, one that translates the poetry of mutual affection and nostalgia for Canterbury into institutional structures that move in the direction of international canon law. What was formerly a loose federation ... What can we knowIn the Beginning of creation when God was making the heavens and the earth [...] God said "Let del dot D equal rho, and let del dot B equal zero, and let del cross E equal minus the partial of B by t, and let del cross H equal I plus the partial of D by t" and there was light. God's DreamA solitary human being is a contradiction in terms. We say in Africa a person is a person through other persons. We are made for togetherness, for friendship, for fellowship. We are created to live in a delicate network of interdependence ... The Cost of DiscipleshipBy voluntarily withdrawing our representatives to the June ACC gathering from "official participation" ECUSA has once-and-for-all demonstrated to the larger Communion that we take seriously the cost of discipleship -- that we are willing to pay a price for the prophetic ministry to which we have been called: the high calling of striving to include all of the baptized in the Body of Christ. Columns |