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Kenyan Archbishop Eliud Wabukala on Board to Attend Canterbury Gabfest called by Justin Welby
ACNA Archbishop Foley says he will attend. TEC Presiding Bishop Michael Curry will also attend
By David W. Virtue DD
www.viretyueomnline.org
September 17, 2105
VOL has learned that GAFCON leader and primate of the Anglican Church of Kenya Eliud Wabukala will attend the gabfest called by Archbishop Justin Welby in Canterbury in January of next year in an effort to resolve tensions in the Anglican Communion.
Welby took the risk of announcing the meeting before securing the agreement of the big players in GAFCON, recognizing that they would come only if ACNA Archbishop Foley Beach was also invited. GAFCON will be present at least in the person of Eliud Wabukala who VOL was told, "is definitely on board and leading the way."
Still no word if Nigerian Archbishop Nicholas Okoh has agreed to come. VOL has learned that he is preparing a statement, which we will release shortly.
Of course, with ACNA present, it is no longer possible to maintain that what goes on in TEC is a reflection of American Anglicanism -- when it is only a reflection of an episcopate that lost its way in the 1970s. ACNA is the true Anglicanism now in North America and Canada. Presiding Bishop Michael Curry has apparently swallowed his pride and agreed to attend.
Lambeth Palace's press release noted previous Lambeth resolutions and past Primates meetings that have yielded nothing for the orthodox, only more tearing of the fabric of the Communion.
The real issue for the Global South is whether they can live with "two integrities" in the Communion!
Recently Archbishop Nicholas Okoh was in the US visiting his CANA bishop and their flocks. He wasn't seen anywhere near TEC's presiding Bishop or regional TEC bishops.
The question must be asked, has anything changed over the past ten years or since 1998 and Resolution 1:10? The answer is nothing except that the ACNA has formed and TEC has dug in its legal heels over property wars and continues to push its pansexual agenda, including changing its canons to include gay marriage at its recent General Convention.
Archbishop Welby has called for the confab because he believes it is the last great hope to either find reconciliation in the Anglican Communion or watch it fall apart with the two parties occupying separate bedrooms, a sort of legal separation versus an outright divorce.
The Archbishop evidently feels he cannot leave his eventual successor in the position of "spending vast amounts of time trying to keep people in the boat and never actually rowing it anywhere."
If such an outcome were agreed upon, members of all the churches would be able to call themselves Anglican, but the change of structure would make clear that there need no longer be a common doctrine.
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