{"id":3295,"date":"2007-02-19T23:27:00","date_gmt":"2007-02-19T23:27:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/standingonmyhead\/2007\/02\/the-archbishops-steering-committee\/"},"modified":"2014-12-23T20:08:48","modified_gmt":"2014-12-24T01:08:48","slug":"the-archbishops-steering-committee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/standingonmyhead\/2007\/02\/the-archbishops-steering-committee.html","title":{"rendered":"The Archbishop&#8217;s Steering Committee"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<p>Who\u2019s directing whom?<\/p>\n<div>Ruth Gledhill of <em>The Times <\/em>of London gets to the <a href=\"http:\/\/timescolumns.typepad.com\/gledhill\/2007\/02\/tec_put_on_noti.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">heart of the matter <\/a>in the communique from the Anglican Primates meeting in Tanzania. Despite the gooey language, the Anglican Communion has rapped the knuckles of the Episcopal Church and called for action. Gledhill\u2019s article includes the whole communique.<\/div>\n<p>I have to hand it to them, the Anglicans have a genius for holding things together. They are like a group of sailors bailing desperately on a leaky boat. Is it that, or is it like one of those slapstick films where the old guy has one foot on the dock and one foot on a boat that\u2019s drifting away? I hope for their sake they can hang on long enough for some new alliances to be made and for some sort of new worldwide Anglican identity to emerge.<\/p>\n<p>What this will be only the Shadow knows. I predict that it will be a loose-knit alliance of independent denominations and geographical provinces that share nothing but a liturgical history and a charming appreciation of English culture. Their understanding of what Christianity really is, and how it is to be lived in the 21st century will range from rootin\u2019 tootin\u2019 fundamentalism to decadent neo-paganism.<\/p>\n<p>May the best man win.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 Who\u2019s directing whom? Ruth Gledhill of The Times of London gets to the heart of the matter in the communique from the Anglican Primates meeting in Tanzania. Despite the gooey language, the Anglican Communion has rapped the knuckles of the Episcopal Church and called for action. Gledhill\u2019s article includes the whole communique. 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