The gift of communion

Thanks to Scott Gunn for posting about this opportunity over at Seven Whole Days

If the efforts of a few people are successful, the Anglican Communion as we know it will not survive to the end of this year. From the right, there are puritan forces who wish to maintain a strict code of moral theology, expelling all those who disagree with their view. From the left, there are those, especially in the US, who believe that we should proceed with our prophetic purpose, regardless of its effects on other people in other cultures.

In other words, our very Communion is threatened.

Read the rest of the article and the statement here.

I think it's really important that the Anglican Communion exists. Being a band geek I think of much of life in terms of music. I see the Anglican communion like a band. Each province representing a difference section. Now sure each section can play on their own. There are tons of clarinet choirs and trumpet trios. But, only when they come together - all the parts as one - do they form a band. You can't have a band without the clarinets, or saxophones, or percussion. Just like you can't have the Anglican Communion without Nigeria, England, and the United States. It is our differences - our unique sounds - that allow us to come together and make beautiful music to our God.

Let us keep working together to maintain the beautiful music of our Anglican Communion, that we may continue to better serve each other and thus our God.