Views on the covenant

With section 4 completed by SCAC, views continue to flow in on the Anglican Covenant.

A sampling:

Bosco Peters: One Anglican Covenant, partly used

Go forward in your time machine to a few years from now and imagine seeing on eBay or Trade Me: “For Sale, one partly used Anglican Covenant – owner hoping to recoup at least some of the significant amount of money and hope invested in it.”

Chris Epting: An Improved Anglican Covenant
While not perfect, this is as good as we’re going to get and I’d like to point out two positive improvements in this draft text. ... I believe some kind of Covenant is necessary in our time.

Graham Kings - 4 key questions are now answered

Meanwhile, the principals have agreed to silence.

Episcopal Presiding Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori, who generally supports gay rights in the church, sits on the 15-member Standing Committee, but it is not known whether she supports the statement. A spokeswoman for Jefferts Schori said on Tuesday that "as agreed upon by the Standing Committee, the details of the conversations of the meeting are considered private."

Posted by John B. Chilton on December 23, 2009 2:22 PM | |
Comments (2)

With respect, I think the SCAC will find it difficult to maintain "privacy" when it comes to adjudicating disputes. When they get ot the sort of business where people are included in or out...which is, after all, the purpose of this document, they will find resistance to secretive deliberations.

We can all expect the general level of carping and ankle biting to increase as the Covenant comes into play. Some among us have waited joyfully for the opportunity to stick it to TEC in a more formal manner!

Posted by Michael Russell [TypeKey Profile Page] | December 23, 2009 3:55 PM

How disappointing that Presiding Bishop Katharine should buy into the Star Chamber/Inquisition privacy ploy. If anything is needed in the Anglican Communion it is transparency for only that can ever build trust. Secrecy only creates suspicion.

Posted by Paul Woodrum [TypeKey Profile Page] | December 23, 2009 6:36 PM

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