After the honey moon...

http://ugleyvicar.blogspot.com/2008/07/after-honeymoon-period.html

[The Ugley Vicar] 29 Jul 2008--Of course, troubles come and go with any institution, but the Anglican Communion is sunk and the Church of England is sinking.

Think of it. Hundreds of bishops have refused to go to the great Lambeth Conference — the gathering that for over a hundred years has had the social status amongst Anglicans of a Buckingham Palace tea party. The sheer fact that you were invited meant you were ‘something’. And despite what people have said since 1998 about its resolutions having no ‘binding force’, they have been of monumental significance in representing and determining the ‘mind’ of Anglicanism.

If the fact that there are so many unfilled places at the Canterbury tables doesn’t convince you the party is over, the popularity of the alternative party in Jerusalem should. Imagine if in the nineteen thirties the bishops of Africa had told the then-Archbishop of Canterbury, “Thank you, but we will not be coming to England.” It is, of course, unthinkable —an impossibility. And that it can happen now is simply a demonstration of how things have changed.