Bowing to the 'Bullydox" of the Communion

Tip of the wimple to the listserv member who posted this link to Island Priest, who is a very angry priest indeed, after reading correspondence between Archibishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams and Bishop John Howe of Central Florida.

While, as others have noted, the ABC's e-mail was a personal note to a bishop and not intended to state polity or official policy, it can certainly be held to the light, and help us see the ABC's thinking.

His thinking seems fuzzy.

Here's a snippet from Island Priest's post. It shows the depth of feeling of betrayal many of us have felt toward the ABC, especially in the last year (to me, at least. Where his thinking doesn't seem vague and confused, it seems plain wrong). Read this:

Perhaps more significantly, though, it is the betrayal of beliefs that Williams held dear for so long – right up, in fact, to the point where he became Archbishop of Canterbury, when – he says – unity became his ministry.

It is now clear that Williams is willing to abandon any individual and even whole Provinces of the Anglican Communion in the cause of “unity”.

I say “unity” in inverted commas because it is not really unity at all, but the bowing of a misguided, naive, and incompetent leader to what one person has described as the “Bullydox” of the Communion: those very narrow “Neo-Puritan” conservatives who wish to reinterpret Anglicanism to be something that is not the “large tent” we are all so familiar with but a prison wherein they alone guard and define what is “acceptable” for others to believe.