tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5951416214263462025.post203278581254202100..comments2023-08-10T01:27:22.370-06:00Comments on Insert Catchy Blog Title Here: Why I Oppose the Anglican CovenantAlan T Perryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11700037716579004059noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5951416214263462025.post-7009835861416001612014-03-19T16:22:40.730-06:002014-03-19T16:22:40.730-06:00Your analyses are detailed and your insights into ...Your analyses are detailed and your insights into the issues are sharp and helpful. Thank you for your well done article!<br />Best wishes, <br />Andy HillAndrew J. Hillhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04758558815320517145noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5951416214263462025.post-28515993266070161582011-09-12T13:25:31.316-06:002011-09-12T13:25:31.316-06:00I joined the Episcopal Church in the first place b...I joined the Episcopal Church in the first place because I found it to be (unlike the Roman Catholic Church, of which I was a member for some fifty years), a church that works, one in which disputes are not the norm, but that can be resolved when they do arise in human and interpersonal fashion (i.e., by listening to the Holy Spirit for real!).<br /> To take the Anglican Communion, which thus far has also worked, and turn it into something dysfunctional, seems to me, to say the least, irrational.Linda in VThttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09819641132290227591noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5951416214263462025.post-47477566979577903912011-09-01T10:02:42.881-06:002011-09-01T10:02:42.881-06:00Alan, I don't have a Master's in Canon Law...Alan, I don't have a Master's in Canon Law, but you write in a manner that the average person can understand, and I think your summary is excellent.<br /><br />Your words that follow particularly drew my attention:<br /><br /><i>"...And it seems to assume that relations among the churches of the Anglican Communion will normally be marked by conflict.”</i><br /><br />What a crooked foundation upon which to build a community based on the New Covenant of Jesus Christ in which we are bid to love God and love our neighbor as ourselves!<br /><br />And then these words which are so very true:<br /><br /><i>So we don't really know what the rules are or what the punishment is for violating them.</i><br /><br />So. We are to sign on to play the Anglican Covenant game despite uncertainty about what will be required of us after we sign and what consequences will follow if we break the rules of the game, even though we don't know the rules.<br /><br />Alan, those words actually made me laugh out loud, but it's not funny, because the folks who ask us to agree to such an absurd document are quite serious.June Butlerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01723016934182800437noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5951416214263462025.post-51171994386558733452011-08-31T21:17:27.117-06:002011-08-31T21:17:27.117-06:00What does it say about our Communion that it would...What does it say about our Communion that it would consider adopting such an unfair and, frankly, poorly drawn document? I would like to think that I am part of a fellowship that is both fair and competent. The Anglican Communion, however, appears to be neither.Lionel Deimelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08363018512775944659noreply@blogger.com