A certain letter and a more certain reply

Frank Griswold, Presiding Bishop of the ECUSA, wrote a letter this week to the other Primates. To say it’s two-faced is putting it nicely. He says he regrets all that nastiness and pain his actions have caused in the Anglican Communion -- while he continues said actions.

Well, one Primate, Gregory Venables, quickly wrote a rather pointed reply. And it is wonderful. The concluding paragraph especially is fireworks from God:

You have insisted on autonomy from the Lambeth resolutions, from the Archbishop of Canterbury's plea, from the ACC, and from the Primates to pursue an agenda that is absolutely scandalous to most Christians. That view of autonomy is the opposite of everything Anglicanism has always stood for. Why would you still want to call yourself Anglican? May I urge you either to live as an Anglican conforming to Anglican norms or admit that you have left us and closed the door behind you.

1. God bless Bishop Venables!

2. The reply, coming from a leader among the conservative Primates, makes it that much clearer that the divisions in the Anglican Communion can not be papered over or dialogued to death.

Chris Johnson, has both letters with links and pointed comments here and here.