St. Peter’s Anglican Church

Dear Editors:

Greg Garrison missed some low hanging fruit on Saturday. Henry Parsley maintains the Episcopal Church did nothing to abandon its commitment to the Anglican Communion. Garrison could have held Henry’s feet to the fire on specifics from substantive players.

Ever conciliatory scholar Kendall Harmon says,

“There are now some participants in the 76th General Convention who are trying to pretend that a ‘yes’ to (the new resolution) is not a ‘no’ to (the moratorium).These types of attempted obfuscations are utterly unconvincing.”

Acclaimed academic and Bishop of Durham N. T. Wright, says DO25 “marks a clear break with the rest of the Anglican Communion” Wright adds that by “cynical double-think” to the contrary, “We should not be fooled.”

Rowan Williams, the Archbishop of Canterbury and sole arbiter of all things Anglican, said it was for the bishops to block what the deputies endorsed in DO25 which was repudiation.

The best of the best in Anglicanism lump Henry in with all other prevaricators. And rightly so! Henry’s last act was to subscribe to the Anaheim Dissent distancing himself from the resolutions he now defends, one for which he voted. Why would Henry so awkwardly and obviously attempt to make clear his commitment to the Anglican Communion if the resolutions he now defends did nothing to undermine that very commitment?

I once gave Henry the benefit of the doubt - that he simply didn’t get it – honestly, that he couldn’t get it. But when Henry continually denies what the wisdom of many others sustains, the benefit ends. At best this is only disingenuous and it is increasingly likely that this is a calculated effort to keep sheep in the dark. One miscalculation - sheep may be dumb but they are not stupid.

Sincerely,

Rev. Dr. John D. Richardson, Senior Pastor

St. Peter’s Anglican Church, AMiA

www.stpetersbhm.org