General Crazy

I originally started this blog as a place to post musings and such on General Convention 2009.  Shortly thereafter I lost interest as there wasn’t much of substance going on at the time. 

That has certainly changed.  I pledge to start posting regularly about GC09 and all the craziness it creates.

Let’s start by posting this.

This is a fantastic interpretation of the current version of the Anglican Covenant as presented by Deputy Gracey of the Diocese of Ohio. Now, as I understand it, GC09 will not be asked to vote on consenting to this document. The reasons why not are not clear to me; I think has to do with a timing issue. Some taskforce created by some body has to do more work on it? I don’t know. But the linked document does so much work for the reader; I highly recommend it if you want to understand what it all means. Article four is the contentious bit. Grateful acknowledgment to the Lead at Episcopal Cafe for linking this.

I guess I think this Covenant is unnecessary if you don’t think that Article four is a good thing. Article four is the punishment piece, thus: if one province of the Anglican Communion (say, The Episcopal Church) does something that another province doesn’t like (say, consecrate bishop someone openly partnered with a member of the same sex), then this (new?) body called the Joint Standing Committee can sort of, well, kick out the province, officially or non-officially. You know, sort of but not really, maybe? Very Anglican.

What I don’t know is how popular this thing is outside of the global South. Provinces like Nigeria and the Southern Cone are all for it, but what about others?

Meh.