It's About D**n Time!

The new Province rises from the ashes of ECUSA…..hurray…..hurray….I hope.

Like a cancer that has been left to grow and fester within a body that has already been weakened by a lifetime of wear, tear and abuse, the “current unpleasantness” perpetrated upon the Faith by ECUSA now pervades every aspect of our Anglican life and now threatens to rend asunder the entire Anglican Communion. Anyone who believes that ECUSA will alter its chosen path toward the utter rejection of anything outside its own narrow definition of “diverse” or “progressive” surely lives in a pleasant little world of his or her own creation; and I might enjoy hanging out with you there for a while. Reality impinges upon our happy places eventually; and most often today that reality comes in the form of a Presuming Deacon, flamboyantly attired in vestments stolen from a Wringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey Circus yard sale and carrying an invisible letter of Renunciation of Orders that she assumes was meant to be sent to her but just got lost in the mail.

No, ACNA is not the preferred solution for most Anglo-Catholics, but I defy you to show me a better one at the present time. (Obviously, swimming the Tiber is an option, but not one I am prepared to take….yet.) If the Primates recognize the new Province in sufficient numbers, and then do not allow the ACC to “study” the situation to death and then shelve the whole thing for a decade of “Indabaing”, then we will be a step closer to a safe haven that will preserve our apostolic connection with the See of Canterbury.

Oops. I forgot. In order for that to work, the ABC will have to climb down out of his ivory tower of happiness and sunshine and MAKE A DAMN DECISION!

I believe that it is preferable for us to remain in communion with Canterbury, however, when the final accounting is taken, +++Rowan is going to find that the majority of practicing Anglicans in the world have broken communion with him and are rallying around one of the other ancients Sees like Jerusalem, Antioch or (perish the thought) Rome. This is the great realignment that is coming, and it will make the strife in the US pale in comparison.

We await GenCon ’09, but more than likely, the regular cast of ECUSA characters will orchestrate a successful move to push consideration of the Covenant to GenCon ’12. At the same time, B033 will be officially repudiated, orthodoxy will be decried for delaying the progressive work of the church, the MGD’s will become an authorized substitution for the Creed on Sunday, and work will formally begin to authorize SSM rites and rewrite the BCP.
At some time in the foreseeable future, all persons of Faith will have to make a decision. For myself and my house, I choose God, which means that a move may be in order. My bags are packed (water wings included); but my ticket is not yet purchased. I trust that God will show me what to do.