Kearon to meet with Executive Council?

Canon Kenneth Kearon will attend the meeting of the Executive Council of the Episcopal Church that begins tonight near Baltimore, the Café has learned. Kearon recently emailed Episcopalians who participated in ecumenical dialogs on behalf of the Anglican Communion that their services were no longer required. Rowan Williams, the Archbishop of Canterbury, proposed removing Episcopalians from these groups because the church will not observe the moratorium he has requested, on the consecration of openly gay and lesbian Christians as bishops.

Posted by Ann Fontaine on June 15, 2010 6:15 PM | |
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Was Kenneth Kearon invited to the meeting, or did he come on his own?

June Butler

Posted by GrandmèreMimi [TypeKey Profile Page] | June 15, 2010 8:49 PM

I guess they hadn't counted on the PB taking a stand--and in their home territory, no less!!

I hope that Executive Council does not confuse "Christian love and charity" with passivity and politeness. It is time that the governing body of this church (between GCs, of course) stands up for the Gospel, our LGBT brothers and sisters who face danger or death in other parts of the AC, and for simple fairness in treatment by the AC & +Cantaur.

The time for waffling is over. The PB has demonstrated how to speak the truth in love. Let's hope EC follows her lead.

Paige Baker

Posted by paigeb [TypeKey Profile Page] | June 15, 2010 9:09 PM

Well I hope someone is planning to hand him a copy of this:

http://www.episcopalcafe.com/lead/anglican_communion/its_formal_cana_is_a_diocese_o.html

Posted by Bonnie Spivey [TypeKey Profile Page] | June 15, 2010 9:44 PM

What an excellent opportunity to tell the secretary general just how arrogant and cynical we think his actions were!

Posted by Lionel Deimel [TypeKey Profile Page] | June 15, 2010 10:07 PM

Love to be a fly on the wall! I hope they very politely tell him to mind his business!
Doug Spurlin

Posted by Doug [TypeKey Profile Page] | June 15, 2010 11:00 PM

The conflict in the Anglican Communion is between those who are obsessively concerned with who is sleeping with whom, or who is in a committed relationship with whom and how they might be ministering in the Church and those who are concerned about those who are being beaten, imprisoned and threatened with death for their sexual identity.

Frankly, Canterbury has aligned itself with those provinces which are actively promoting or passively acquiescing to the mistreatment of the glbt community and women and instead to taking a minutes guff from Kearon we should be putting him on notice that TEC will hold his and ++Williams' feet to the fire for their abject failure to sanction provinces which are involved in the abuse of women and gays.

Posted by Michael Russell [TypeKey Profile Page] | June 15, 2010 11:42 PM

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