Friday, December 21, 2007

Chuck Collins Writes His Parish Leadership about the ABC’s Advent Letter

http://www.kendallharmon.net/t19/index.php/t19/article/8522/#more

[TitusOneNine] 21 Dec 2007--The much-anticipated Advent Letter has arrived! It is hard to overemphasize the importance of the Archbishop's letter to the Primates and to the rest of the Anglican Communion.

There is much to commend in this letter (The Rev. Canon Kendall Harmon's analysis is very helpful). It reaffirms the Bible as our primary authority, reaffirms the traditional view of Christian sexual ethics (1998 Lambeth 1.10), and it acknowledges the hurt caused the Anglican Communion when one province acts without regard for the entire Communion.

However, what is not said in this letter may be its most important feature. History might say that this was one of the greatest missed opportunities of all time.

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