Telling it like it is
If anyone is in any doubt as to the nature of the battle going on within world Anglicanism, he need only listen to the candid comments of the Rev Giles Fraser, the president of the liberal Anglican ‘Inclusive Church’ network.
In a recent news release, the Rev Fraser complained that rebel conservative churches and groups (such as Reform and Anglican Mainstream) are trying to “destroy the traditional breadth of the Church of England and turn it into a puritan sect. They must not be allowed to succeed.”
What is it in particular that these groups are trying to do? “Across the Communion, we see attempts to replace the breadth and openness of Anglican theology with a confessional, protestant theology and practice.”
Rev Fraser hopes that the Archbishop of Canterbury, and the other bishops as well, will jolly well do their best to make sure that these chaps don't succeed. The last thing we want is for the Anglican Communion to be confessional (that is, actually to stand for something), let alone to be protestant (the thing we might stand for).
To adapt the words of Bono, this is the church liberalism stole from the Reformers; now we're stealing it back.