Anglican Head: Concerns of Communion Stem from Deep Bonds

By Eric Young
Christian Post Reporter
Fri, Jul. 10 2009

The head of the Anglican Communion suggested Thursday that tensions stemming from concerns within the worldwide church body are partly the result of its' members love and need for each other.

“If we – if I – had felt that we could do perfectly well without you, there wouldn't be a problem,” the Archbishop of Canterbury, the Most Rev. Rowan Williams, told The Episcopal Church’s 76th General Convention in Anaheim, Calif.

“But the bonds of relationship are deep, for me personally as for many others. And I'm tempted to adapt what St Paul says to the Corinthians in the middle of a set of tensions no less bitter than what we have been living through and in the wake of challenges from St Paul a good deal more savage than even the sharpest words from Primates or Councils: 'Why? Because we do not love you? God knows we do.'” the rest