Archbishop Justin Welby is calling together all the Primates of the 38 Anglican churches around the world (plus one outside the communion) to talk about the future of the Anglican Communion. According to the headlines, he is saying that the Anglican Communion is a failure that it is falling apart. So to stop the bleeding, we are told, the future of the Communion is looser ties with one another.
When I first heard this, I had to check my urge to panic. On the one hand, I do not want a return to the Anglican Wars of the last decade or two. On the other hand, I don’t want some of the people in other Anglican churches (in and out of the Communion) to beat up the Episcopal Church (and, by extension, me).
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