DIVORCE
Chuck Murphy makes it official:
Bishop Chuck Murphy along with the other former bishops of the Anglican Mission in America (AMiA) have rejected the protocol for reconciliation with the Church of Rwanda brokered by the Archbishop of
Kenya at the 4 January 2012 meeting in Nairobi.
Speaking at a conference in Houston this week, Bishop Murphy reiterated his plans to form a mission society with an international focus from the remnants loyal to him within the former AMiA. The decision to repudiate ties with Rwanda severs the last link to the Anglican Communion for Bishop Murphy and his faction within the AMiA.
Bishop Phillip Jones, one of the resigned suffragan bishops told the Houston Conference, the new group no longer sought to be Anglican or to work within the confines of the Anglican tradition. The Murphy group wanted to be attached to some wider organization, but in its current form it was a non-institutional entity with a global focus, that did not need to be Anglican, Bishop Jones said according to those present at the meeting.
Normally, I’d consider a willingness to walk away from an “official” Anglican connection to be admirable. But not in this case. I can’t see any “wider organization” that would willingly take on a group headed by Chuck Murphy. Prior to Murphy’s power grab, AMiA already had a global focus. It has considerably less of one now.
Bishop Chuck Murphy along with the other former bishops of the Anglican Mission in America (AMiA) have rejected the protocol for reconciliation with the Church of Rwanda brokered by the Archbishop of
Kenya at the 4 January 2012 meeting in Nairobi.
Speaking at a conference in Houston this week, Bishop Murphy reiterated his plans to form a mission society with an international focus from the remnants loyal to him within the former AMiA. The decision to repudiate ties with Rwanda severs the last link to the Anglican Communion for Bishop Murphy and his faction within the AMiA.
Bishop Phillip Jones, one of the resigned suffragan bishops told the Houston Conference, the new group no longer sought to be Anglican or to work within the confines of the Anglican tradition. The Murphy group wanted to be attached to some wider organization, but in its current form it was a non-institutional entity with a global focus, that did not need to be Anglican, Bishop Jones said according to those present at the meeting.
Normally, I’d consider a willingness to walk away from an “official” Anglican connection to be admirable. But not in this case. I can’t see any “wider organization” that would willingly take on a group headed by Chuck Murphy. Prior to Murphy’s power grab, AMiA already had a global focus. It has considerably less of one now.
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