I made my way once through all the various materials sent to me as a delegate to the Anglican Church of Canada's General Synod next month. There is a line up of the usual suspects - you know, abolish nuclear weapons, have a pesticide free garden (which I have had for years), same sex stuff, the church is broke & your money will fix it. All of this stuff comes to me on the photocopied 81/2 by 11 stuff which is the foundation of all church committee work. I swear the gospels were first written down on 3 hole punched paper, ready for a binder.
Of all the materials I and the other delegates received, only one thing came wrapped up as a fancy-schmancy DVD.
"Governance".
No photocopied white or even green paper for this baby. Video production. Nice packaging. A purer form of Anglicanism: appealing to as many of the senses as possible. I'm not one to jump to conclusions, and I have no fondness for conspiracy theories (even though I know you are all out to get me), but it seems to me that this is a fairly high priority for the powers that be.
I have a friend, let's call him Joe, who thinks that what some folks really want is a change in the structure of governance for our church. More power and authority being moved to the central office; that is after all, the first option presented in the proposed move.
Or, to put it another way, if you can't get what you want this way, eventually you can get it that way.
Wonder what the disc cost to produce and distribute?
I will continue to offer baseless speculation as I see fit, as opposed to the thoughtful stuff out there.
Sameo also has a report on the session I missed while I was smoking sheesha on the banks of the Nile leading a Christian Pilgrimage through the Holy Land.
On the other hand, we finished planting the vegetable garden this evening. I'm trying a new variety of sugar snap peas.
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