I think having Rick Warren and Metropolitan Jonah demonstrates the sickness that perpetually plagues Anglicanism. There really isn't unity in faith amongst the Anglicans, it is only a matter of time until this new body repeats the errors of TEC. The evangelical protestants need to follow Rick Warren, the Anglo-Catholics need to take up Metropolitan Jonah on his offer of inclusion without a change in rite. It would be more healthy for Christianity as a whole and it would allow Anglicans to then work towards sharing Christ regardless of their title of Orthodox or Evangelical.

Rick Warren isn't the issue. He's a speaker, a guest at the Church like any speaker invited to do a lecture etc.. Get your concentration of making the Anglican Church THE Anglican Church. And why is it assumed that because you don't want practicing homosexuals in Church that you hate and are against them. Having abstaining homosexuals in church is okay because their concentration is where it should be, on Jesus, and not the religion of sex. It's the point of Jesus, give up your sin whatever it is and have your mind on God because you were created to belong to God through Jesus. God gave sex for pleasure not to be worshipped above him. Like any other addiction it is pleasureable but it is not to be worshipped to the point it takes your mind off of God. The assumption should be that those wanting homosexuals to stop making sex their worship and to bring them to God are what Church is to be about and any other thinking is wrong. Ask any recovering alcoholic what hell is without Jesus

High church, low church, broad church, Anglo-Catholics, evangelicals....what a mish-mash of conflicting beliefs all claiming to be the real Anglican church. Anglicanism can't get its act together. It loves the "Church" and its traditions more than anything.

In response to MP's comment posted on July 30th concerning Rick Warren, I am in complete agreement. I am a minister in the Anglican Church in North America. Why was Rick Warren there? I don't know; I REALLY DON'T KNOW! I, personally, don't want to be associated with Rick Warren in any way. He is a compromiser, and most certainly not Anglican.

I really pray for Christians to become more perceptive of Jesus' commandments, to be 'red letter Christians' rather than the almost exclusive concentration on the pauline epistles which is only too common today - the 'black letter' folks. If schisms lead in this direction, so much to the good. The way does not lie in the broad road. Jesus also discriminated between the sheep and the goats for example - "Jesus was not against anybody" is actually not true at all - read His diatribes against the Edomite Pharisees.