Anglican Communion Network

Network responds to worst-case scenario

The Anglican Communion Network thanks The Living Church magazine for reporting on what Via Media USA’s acting secretary calls its worst-case scenario. Talk of blank presentment forms, and consulting with the Presiding Bishop about replacing duly elected bishops, does indeed qualify as anticipating and preparing for the worst. The Network has been the frequent subject of conspiracy theories, and we are content to let our actions speak for themselves.

To the extent that the Episcopal Church insists on walking apart from the broader Anglican Communion, the Network intends to strengthen Anglican bonds of affection. As we look toward the 2006 General Convention, we recall this warning to the early church: “Come now, you who say, ‘Today or tomorrow we will go to such and such a town and spend a year there, doing business and making money.’ Yet you do not even know what tomorrow will bring. What is your life? For you are a mist that appears for a little while and then vanishes. Instead you ought to say, ‘If the Lord wishes, we will live and do this or that.’ As it is, you boast in your arrogance; all such boasting is evil. Anyone, then, who knows the right thing to do and fails to do it, commits sin” (James 4:14-17, NRSV).