Is this gracious restraint in North America?

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[Anglican Mainstream] 17 Feb 2009--We know that a covenant is a solemn agreement between two parties. But what is implied? We would expect that the two parties would like each other and respect each other. That they would share an agenda. That they would want to walk together in the same direction, using just one map.

But when we consider the reason why the Anglican Covenant was first invented – the actions in The Episcopal Church in the United States which tore the fabric of the Anglican Communion – we have to recognize that there is not one map now but two. And it seems a very healthy thing, the other day, that this fact was recognized at the recent Primates’ meeting in Alexandria. There are now two versions of Christianity within the Anglican Communion.

How has this come about? For more than thirty years a gradual drift away from the authority of Scripture has meant a gradual change in Anglican faith and practice in North America. So gradual, so slow, that, unless you had your wits about you, you would not realize the enormous distance that has been covered in those years.