The Anglican Scotist has a post up that discusses whether a decision by the Episcopal Church to remain in the Communion, and to stay at the table arguing our case could have any real benefits.
He argues that the presence of Katherine Jeffers Schori at the Primates meeting as a full an active participant shows how far we have come from the days when people argued against ordaining Barbara Harris as a priest...
"[T}he victory is to a large extent, but not by any means wholly, ours: a victory of the Episcopal Church. The entire Communion has just been made to benefit--at our expense--insofar as women everywhere have ++Schori's shattering example as a precedent. And ++Schori's example came at great expense to the Episcopal Church in terms of international outrage and internal division. But this victory is also a vindication of what ++Schori refrerred to recently as our charism, our prophetic ministry to the Communion. Nobody should have any doubt as to that ministry's concrete reality and its potential for surprising and even unexpected success. That is, there is reason to believe some similar success is in store for our advocacy of blessing SSBs and ordaining homosexuals to the episcopate; the for-all-we-know real accessinility of such success gives excellent reason for hope if any were needed."
Read the rest here: A Tacit Liberal Triumph at Tanzania
(Via The Anglican Scotist.)
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