19 September 2015 A.D. CoE, GAFCON, TEC & ACNA—37 or 38 Primates for meeting January 2016?
19 September 2015 A.D. CoE, GAFCON, TEC & ACNA—37 or 38 Primates for meeting January 2016? Editors. “The Guardian view on the Anglican communion: catching up with reality.” The Guardian. 17 Sept 2015. http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/sep/17/the-guardian-view-on-the-anglican-communion-catching-up-with-reality . Accessed 18 Sept 2015. V anity is what gets all prelates in the end and, for archbishops of Canterbury, the name of that vanity is “Anglicanism”. Who would not rather be a world spiritual leader than the figurehead of an established religion that has lost its grip on the imagination of a shrinking second-rate power? In particular, the temptation to believe, as headline writers do, in a worldwide organisation called “the Anglican Church”, with 50 million (or was it 80 million?) followers, has been too strong for archbishops of Canterbury to resist. The effect has always been comic but sometimes it has been malign as well. In particular, it has en...