Anglican World

It is a big week for Anglicans, not that we'd really know it way down here at the ends of the earth. But this week the Anglican Consultative Council meets in Jamaica to consider the Anglican Covenant Document. The ACC is one of the "instruments of communion" that hold our loose association of churches together. They are the ones who set the "rules of engagement".

The proposed Covenant is the method by which the Archbishop of Canterbury hopes to save the communion. It sets out what we as Anglicans commit to, to hold us together.

The challenge will be to get a covenant that really holds us to biblical orthodoxy and that has the ability to exclude from the fellowship those who have chosen to tread a different path away from historic creedal Anglican Christianity. The fear is that it will be so weak that it will drive out the orthodox among us.

Of course, this is a matter very close to the heart of those of us who have joined the Fellowship of Confessing Anglicans around the world. The question of whether the communion is heading towards or away from orthodoxy is key. There is good coverage of the events at the ACC meeting here if you are interested.