A Communique Regarding Bishop Murphy’s Followers and PEAR

from Stand Firm by Matt Kennedy 

Here is what is being called the Johannesburg Communique (PDF). The statement reads like an attempt to make the best of a broken situation. Both parties, the Province of Rwanda and the remainder of what was once the AMiA before Chuck Murphy’s schism, agree to part ways peacefully. Bishop Murphy and his followers have apparently refused to repent and continue to blame the Holy Spirit for their decisions. It is, in my opinion, a sad document.

Update: Here’s the take from the blog “A Living Text”

The latest communique says instead that “we have done the best within our human efforts to fulfill the recommendations of the Nairobi Meeting”. I haven’t seen AMiA putting their plans on hold for six months, so I interpret this to mean that Rwanda is graciously allowing them to go their way.
This again points to a problem for Anglicanism that is at least as old as Bishop Pike and his heresy trial, if not much older, and that is that there is a real failure of church discipline…more