JOEL

The time has come for the Dioceses of Ft. Worth, Quincy, San Joaquin, Missionary Diocese of All Saints (FIF), the REC, and others of like mind to withdraw from the Anglican Church in North America (ACNA) and form a new, orthodox Anglican body in North America, the jurisdiction that should have been formed in the beginning of the Fellowship in those early days, a jurisdiction that does not purport to ordain women. A North American jurisdiction that is firm in formation and theological education. A jurisdiction that advances the classical Prayer Book tradition, and discards the folly of the past. It is also time for those in the various GAFCON provinces to draw a similar line on women’s ordination. The time has come to put an end to this madness and form a broad basis for renewal in global Anglicanism. If you take the lead, others will follow.

Far be it from me to tell the Anglicans what to do, but when it comes to American Protestant Episcopal "retvrn home", that's going to look more like this:

The trouble with the "reconquista" movements: If you look at, say, the history of the Episcopal Church in the mid-40s to late mid-70s, ideological capture had been underway for decades. Even in the late 19th century, there were goofy, barely theistic, Nicene Creed skeptical clergy and bishops running around. In the 1960s, the Episcopal Church failed to punish Albert Pike for heresy because there was no will in the House of Bishops to do it, even though he openly doubted pretty basic things like the Trinity. This is the same church that let Spong be elected bishop with barely any resistance. This is the same church who, when it first broke the rules by ordaining the Philadelphia Eleven, not only did not punish anyone, but began the process to make it permitted two years later at General Convention. So, suppose you want to reverse all that via reconquista. You'd need two successive votes of the General Convention to do it in a body that, even in the 1960s, couldn't bring itself to punish someone for openly denying the Trinity. To do that, you'll need to get after vestries, discernment committees, delegations to General Convention, seminaries, etc, reversing a trajectory that was already on its way there in the late 1800s, if not earlier. It is the same naivete many of us in the Continuum (and ACNA) often have: that this process which took 150 years to get jacked up will not also take 150 or more years to repair. Honest conversations need to happen. I don't want to sound skeptical or dismissive, but both continuers and reconquista types need to understand they've signed up for a centuries long project here.

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