Thursday, October 13, 2005

Staying together or walking together.
Vinay Samuel and Chris Sugden

What is driving the search for new relationships in the Anglican Communion? What is driving the realignment of the Communion?

Why have people been leaving their current relationships in the Anglican Communion, with their parish, bishop, diocese or province?

The situation of the diocese of Recife is a classic illustration of the situation: here is a diocese which has oversight of parishes in the United States, but itself is now under the oversight of another province than the one where it is located geographically.

Loss of Anglican Identity
The drivers of this change are that people are being dispossessed by bishops of their Anglican identity. Liberal action has actively dispossessed people of their Anglican identity by throwing them out of local Anglican polity – in Brazil and Connecticut. Or liberal pressure is putting pressure on them to sign up to things which in conscience they cannot do. The deal offered is compromise or lose your Anglican identity.
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