General Synod and A Word to the Church

Dane Neufeld
Analysis, Anglican Church of Canada, Commentary, Ecclesiology, Ethics
It could be argued that if we had all gone home after voting on these affirmations, much of the pain that resulted from General Synod’s other decisions could have been avoided and we may have been the better for it. But as it happened, we proceeded to the debate and vote on the marriage canon amendment, the failure of which unleashed an avalanche of protest, accusation, and ill will that in many ways will form the lasting characterization of General Synod 2019 for many of those who were present.

ARCIC III, Walking Together on the Way: Learning to Be the Church—Local, Regional, Universal

Bishop John Bauerschmidt
Analysis, Commentary, Ecclesiology, The Episcopal Church
ARCIC III is convinced that, just as a return to the sources of tradition in Scripture, liturgy, and the Patristic and Scholastic periods (ressourcement) has been renewing both Anglican and Roman Catholic theology since the middle of the last century, so critical self-examination through the prism of ecumenical dialogue and receptive learning can deepen the renewal and participation of the Church in the Trinitarian communion of God.