However you try to mend it, the Anglican Communion is broken
From John Richardson:
Believe it or not, they used to make cars in the UK without locking petrol caps. I know, I had one. A locking petrol cap was an ‘accessory’ that you had to buy in a store like Halfords. They became popular in the 1970s for one simple reason – people started stealing petrol from cars.
What this snippet of social history shows, however, is of contemporary relevance for the Anglican Communion: if you are trying to come up with a new solution, you already have a new problem. Just as the advent of the locking petrol cap showed that social mores had changed in 1970s England, so the very existence of the Windsor process, and the accompanying search for an Anglican Covenant, shows that the Communion is not what it was. It is broken – the very fact that people are trying to mend it proves that this is the case. Read more
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