The Rev. Mark Michael is editor-in-chief of The Living Church. An Episcopal priest, he has reported widely on global Anglicanism, and also writes about church history, liturgy, and pastoral ministry.
The progressive churches praised the proposals’ vision of “plural catholicity,” but criticized plans to weaken full communion as the standard for unity.
The Episcopal Church lost two of its retired bishops in the past week: Joe Burnett, 10th Bishop of Nebraska, and Chester Talton, Suffragan Bishop of Los Angeles.
Some clerics say their church remains homophobic and others vow to defy the bishops, with the eight-year LLF process stopped dead by new legal and theological guidance.
Archbishop Titus Chung is the first major conservative Anglican leader to express concerns about the implications of GAFCON’s Global Anglican Communion.
All 12 men who drafted the plan for the Global Anglican Communion hail from dioceses and churches that have never been part of the Anglican Communion or have been largely disengaged from it for the last two decades.
