‘England bypassed. Global Communion isolated.’

Posted on July 7, 2008 
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John RichardsonMany years ago a Dutch friend of mine told me about a cartoon which expressed what they thought about the English attitude: an English newspaper headline read, “Fog in the Channel. Continent cut off.”

In the same way, we have seen English bishops, and indeed Archbishops, complaining that GAFCON has not shown due regard for Anglo-centric structures and personalities — that they, and not ‘self-appointed’ individuals and bodies, have the right to define the terms by which Anglicanism is constituted and operates.…

– John Richardson writes on the mindset of the Church of England at the Ugley Vicar.