Seeing as this once staunch Anglican is out “Church Shopping” this Sunday I am wondering how goes the rest of the disgruntled, the disgusted, and the disenfranchised now that that Lambeth party is over.

Where are you going? Are you shopping the Roman Catholic brand, the Pentecostal brand or are you looking for something closer to what was “Anglican” in the old days of 2002?  How about the REC’s or the new Network churches, the Independents’ or even the Western Rite Orthodox? The choice in my neck of the woods is inspiring but then again it’s Niagara, the faster sinking ship in the fastest sinking fleet of what is known as the ACoC.  Lots of splinters. Lots of completion to Michael Bird’s brand. Remember that article about how few “Anglicans” actually attend the once official Anglican Brand in Niagara?

It must be horrific numbers now.

So give us a line on where you are going and sleeping in is one of the options we’d like to hear about.

Perhaps we can make a graph! Now that would be so cool. Almost modern.

She came, she sang, and sang, and sang, but nobody listened or took notice. So she heaved her bulk out of Canterbury and took off home to wait the next call to come and attend the final curtain of any institution that is in its death throes.

And now it’s over. Witness the death rattle of western Anglicanism.

Pundits have compared what is seen as the wreck of western Anglicanism to the famous wreck of the Titanic. Remember the unsinkable Titanic who was sailed willy nilly into an iceberg at top speed with poorly equipped lookouts on watch, an attitude of superiority that took one’s breath away and not enough life boats. Oh and don’t forget she was British built and was the pride of the empire. And she sank like a stone.

Well folks those pundits may be wrong.

This sorry mess is most likely to turn out to be better compared to the horrific crash of the Hindenburg. It only took a minute and happened in the USA.

And my final observation is that the Hindenburg disaster was mostly caused by a lot of hot air of a volatile nature.

So am I wrong?

I’m sorry there hasn’t been much posted here, recently.  But, the fact of the matter is that this next week will prove to be the most important, anyway.

We’ve been dealing with a very sick mother, who is now in our care here in London, in the midst of some fairly significant adversity within our family, so please don’t think we don’t care.  We really do.  It’s just been a real rough few weeks.

Anyway, enough whining.

Davis Mac-Iyalla, an Anglican from Nigeria who is gay (and who we have written about in the past) has been up to no good.  I write this not to gloat about being right as rain, but to expose (with all thanks to our very good friends at SF) this man for what he is.

We ought not, though, to rejoice in this revelation, but to pray fervently and often for folks like Davis.  He is obviously a deeply troubled person in need of our care and provision.

Thankfully, Griffith (pbuh), has the class and wisdom to call for the same thing.

Anyway, we’ll be here, in the midst of our own problems, covering Lambeth as much as we can.

- Michael Daley

Mounting debts re the ‘Lambeth 2008 Party’ may have the Archbishop of Canterbury’s creditors suggesting ways of getting paid. 

Asking for more loot from what’s left of the Church of England is not on as all that seems to be left are  mostly empty pews.

Selling the plate and furnishing isn’t much of an option either as the antique market has been swamped with ecclesiastical cast offs for reasons beyond us. 

What’s an archbishop to do? 

Our suggestion is to sell the old pile and move into a new council house.

Any takers? It would make a nice retirement home with a bit of modern plumbing installed.

(a tip off  from David V)

From here

He said he had “talked seriously” to the African bishops about coming to Lambeth. “But they’d made their minds up, which is sad. When a close friend comes and talks to me, I’d like to think I had an open mind until we’d talked about it. I can’t tell you the real reasons why people aren’t here except that they think it’s already gone too far, that we’re beyond dialogue and there’s a very large area of distrust.

“I think if we give up on dialogue then we’ve given up completely. . . I think it’s extremely sad. I think [their not coming] was a mistake. The Americans made a sad mistake in 2003 when they moved ahead without agreement and I think others have made the same mistake in not being here at Lambeth.”

- Michael Daley