"I think the Covenant has been a helpful instrument in promoting dialogue and has created a great deal of conversation. I think we have done some important works as a result of the Covenant. So I see it as essentially as a positive thing, whether or not it is as binding in its present form is not as important to me as what it is able to achieve for the Anglican Communion," said Kansas Bishop Dean Wolfe.

They also had a photograph of other religions of the world displayed on banners. Christianity was discretely (of course) not represented.

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Middle East Archbishop Mouneer Anis, a no show Primate, said the meeting had been "cooked and precooked" with no outcome that was not already a forgone conclusion. Decisions made at previous primates' meetings were not acted upon and orthodox primates no longer allowed Dr. Rowan Williams to play shuttle diplomacy between the two groups, both of whom have very different gospels. The "big issues" were quickly swept under the carpet.

Prophetically true.

"I tried to find a model, but found none in the US," he told VOL while participating in the ANGLICAN 1000 Church Planters Conference in Plano, Texas, this week. "Some parishes will cut out a place in a pew for a wheel chair. I felt there was much more to it than that. I firmly believed that whatever state you are in is just fine. We are all here to worship...we are all here together, there is a job there in the church for you."