Bishopsspeak

Two archbishops spoke recently: Canterbury and Abuja. I have pointed before to Peter Akinola’s strange penchant for straight talk. Strange to us who tumble around in the permanent spin cycle of the West. His latest“clarification” (http://www.anglican-nig.org/primate) is along the lines of “What part of ‘No’ do you not understand?”

Our amended constitution deleted all such references that hold colonial intonation defining us with the See of Canterbury and replaced them with a new provision of Communion with all Anglican Churches, Dioceses andProvinces that hold and maintain the Historic Faith, Doctrine, Sacrament and Discipline of the one Holy, Catholic, and Apostolic Church.

This action has been largely misrepresented by those who think that schism in the Anglican Church has become inevitable following the disarray the United States and the Canadian Churches brought on the Communion because of their revisionist agenda on homosexuality. And most recently the House of Bishops of the Church of England’s apparent double-speak on the Civil Partnerships Act that comes into force by December 5, this year.

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