A modest suggestion for the new province

http://hillsofthenorth.blogspot.com/2008/12/modest-suggestion-for-new-province.html

[Hills of the North] 4 Dec 2008--Much will be written today elsewhere about the fledgling Anglican Church in North America, which yesterday came into being, at least in a provisional sense. Surely it is time for such a move, if only to stem the flow of orthodox Episcopalians out of the Anglican fold entirely. And the anecdotal evidence (and the numbers not adding up) suggests that exactly what is happening to most of those orthodox who have been leaving the Episcopal Church. Certainly in this part of Georgia, if one leaves one's Episcopal parish there is no other alternative. It continues to astound this writer that the ACI does not see merit in the new proposed province if only for this reason: that it offers hope for a continued, robust, and numerically significant Anglican witness in North America that they would acknowledge (by their surrender on the issue of reform) that the Episcopal Church no longer can, given its heterodoxy. If the ACI were truly Anglican, instead of merely Episcopal, one would think they would want those who will out of conscience leave the Episcopal Church to go somewhere other than the local Methodist or Presbyterian or non-denominational church, or to Roman Catholicism or big-O Orthodoxy. One senses, though, no small amount of petulant bitterness on their part toward those who do not share their institutional loyalty. It says much that they would apparently prefer those leaving the Episcopal Church abandon Anglicanism altogether.