FACE, PALM, PALM, FACE

from Midwest Conservative Journal by The Editor

I’m sure you two have a lot of catching up to do:

Controversial American Anglican bishop Gene Robinson condemned Dr Rowan Williams for failing to stop internal rows over the ordination of women and gay priests.

Can’t argue with that too much. Once showing the Episcopalians the door was taken off the table, Dr. Williams’ options were extremely limited.

‘I have clergy friends who literally studied at Archbishop Williams’ feet and who have said to me it is almost as if aliens have come and taken Rowan away from us.

‘They have left something that looks like him but we don’t recognise him any more.’

Yeah. Sure you have. Robbie, if I’m you, I never EVER use that particular analogy for any reason ever again. Never again, Robbie. At all. Period.

But [Robinson] added:’ I’m not at all sure that his attempts to hold us together as a communion at all costs is the kind of leadership that this time calls for.’

Bishop Robinson claimed Dr Williams had been tougher on the American church and demanded a ‘higher standard’ than in other parts of the world.

Really want to go there Robbie? Among other things, Dr. Williams allowed the spurious issue of “boundary crossing” into the Anglican debate. He personally eviscerated the Dar es Salaam primates communiqué. He invited the Americans and Canadians to the Lambeth Conference as if 2003 had never happened and gamed the conference so the controversy wouldn’t and couldn’t be solved.

If that’s holding the Episcopal Organization to a “higher standard,” you no doubt would have screamed bloody murder if my gracious lord of Canterbury had actually taken the problem seriously and had done something constructive to solve it.