“Faithful of yesterday have become the dissidents of today” Venables
The BBC reports
Keith Ackerman, bishop of Quincy, Illinois, came because, as he put it: "An empty chair can’t speak": he thought it important that the conservative view was represented.
He voiced the unease of many traditionalists when he accused liberals, in effect, of trying to rewrite the Bible. "Why is it that people are determined to change the faith delivered to the saints?"
The conservatives feel the ground shifting beneath them and they find it deeply unsettling. "The faithful of yesterday have become the dissidents of today," in the words of Archbishop Greg Venables.
He was one of the 200 Anglican bishops and primates who met in Jerusalem a few weeks ago and founded what is, in effect, a breakaway organisation – the Fellowship of Confessing Anglicans.
Though he came to Canterbury and participated in the service, he was one of several bishops who did not take communion, arguing that he is no longer in communion with many of his colleagues.
Picnic
Two hours later on the outskirts of Canterbury, the man whose ordination as bishop of New Hampshire helped create the present crisis was at a picnic and open-air service organised by gay and lesbian activists in the Church. Gene Robinson has explicitly not been invited to the conference itself for fear that his presence would be divisive. But he was here on the conference fringe, accompanied in a show of solidarity, by many of his fellow North American bishops.
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