In an interview with Anglican Essentials that is posted below the Presiding Oceanographer has this to say about the Archbishop of Canterbury and border crossings:
KJS: I don’t think he understands how difficult, painful and destructive it’s been, both in the ACoC and TEC. When bishops come from overseas and say, well, we’ll take care of you, you don’t have to pay attention to your bishop, it destroys pastoral relationships. It’s like an affair in a marriage: it destroys trust and I believe it does spiritual violence to vowed relationships. It is a very ancient teaching of the church that a bishop is supposed to stay home and tend to the flock to which he was originally assigned.
Response:
1. The P.O. obviously doesn't understand or care how "difficult, painful and destructive" her actions have been in the Anglican crisis that was first caused by General Convention 2003. Nor does she seem to understand or care about the ramifications of her heavy-handed litigious ways in responding to those of us who have chosen to walk with the Anglican Communion and not apart from it as pecusa has done.
2. For many of us trust was broken by our bishops who lied to us, tried to play us for fools and then threatened to sue us (and in many cases did sue us).
3. Spiritual violence was done when pecusa decided that autonomy is a Christian virtue (which it is not) and acted in unilateral ways against the expressed will of the four instruments of unity and communion within the Anglican Communion.
4. The P.O. is one of the last persons who should be speaking about very ancient teachings. She disregards the Bible, Church History, the Fathers (and Mothers) of the Church, and then she has the audacity to speak about "a very ancient teaching?"
Puleeze.
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