048: Anglican Primates Meeting; The ECUSA, drawing conclusions, and drawing the circle wide
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We interrupt our "sermon series" on HOME to sound off on the recent meeting of the Primates of the Anglican communion. In light of episode 047, we felt it a good supplemental episode. We feebly try to explain for the non-anglican layperson how the polity of the Communion works, and what exactly did and didn't happen at the Primates 2016 meeting in Canterbury, England. We discuss homophobia, unity, provincial churches, sanctions and censure, and options that we as outsiders see that were available to the Primates but rejected in favor of their move to censure the Episcopal Church U.S.A. We end by calling to the church to what the Presiding Bishop of the ECUSA, Michael Curry, called "the high calling" of drawing the circle wide...at least as wide as the women and men and children that are already a part of us...but hopefully even wider than that. Amen.
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