The longer I look at the #LambethCalls on Anglican identity, the less I like it. What we have is one instrument of communion, the #LambethConference, asking another instrument of communion, the Abp of Canterbury to charter a group to review the instruments of communion. 1/
When you consider that every member of a third instrument of communion, the Primates Meeting, is included in the #LambethConference and recall that @JustinWelby has given primates much more influence over the fourth instrument of communion, the Anglican Consultative Council 2/
… you begin to see where this is going. The Anglican Consultative Council is the only instrument of communion that includes clergy and lay people. It is the instrument Welby has had the hardest time getting to do his bidding. 3/
The ACC is on the block here, and so is the ability of people who are not bishops, especially people who are not primates, to influence the life of the Anglican Communion. 4/
I was once enthusiastic about the creation of an Anglican Congress, but in this context—membership and powers will suit the needs of Lambeth Palace and the Anglican Communion office—I am now apprehensive. The Episcopal Church needs new ways of pursuing Anglican relationships 5/5
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