Madness

Many are the threats to sanity that stalk this world.  The Chicago Cubs - why?  The government of North Korea - an entire country led by the sort of people who seem to dominate MMORPGs - only for them it's not a game! The world financial "system."  Of these threats, one of the most pernicious is the effort to understand why Rowan Williams does things.  Fortunately for world sanity, those affected are few in number, even among the world's Anglicans.

But for those who are afflicted by Rowanomania, each "Rowan event," as they're called, elicits cries of "now he's really shown his true colors (or colours, if writing from the evangelical CoE point of view)."  Puzzlement is understandable.  Consider:  here we have an acute scholar, yet he turns a blind eye to the theological bankruptcy of The Litigation Church.  He is himself opposed to abortion, as a rule, but he takes no note of Katie Rags' theory of sacramental abortion.  An intelligent man, he sacrifices the chance of real Anglican unity for the sake of the demographically imploding western establishment.  He is a firm British Lefty (by American standards, very left indeed), yet he cannot seem to grasp that a contributing factor to the Anglican miseries is a degree of post colonial feeling among the younger Anglican Churches, especially in Africa, who quite rightly feel left out of the Anglican power structures.

And so we come to the new Anglican Covenant Working Group, announced today.  3 liberal westerners, 1 moderate conservative from South East Asia.  The three like minded liberals will vote together, and will ensure that whatever the Anglican Covenant eventually may contain, it will certainly contain nothing enforceable.  It won't matter at all.  It will change nothing, if it doesn't simply come to naught.  And next week, or the week after, or the week after that, another Rowan event will bumble along that makes conservatives say, "well, he's not so bad."

Well, dude has power only because we give him power.  Anglican macrostructures don't work?  Build better ones.  Archbishop havers?  Ignore him.  Stop paying attention to the bearded man behind the curtain.  He's not doing anything.

 

Comments

[Judith L]

A bases loaded home run, Captain. Wish there were some way you could donate it to the Cubs.