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Mike Hill gave an address to Bristol Diocesan Synod about the state of the Anglican communion. It included this comment:
…it seems to me that the wrong way to deal with our differences is to be forming alternative groups. The reason I say that and have repeated it time and time again is that my great anxiety is that at the moment issues of human sexuality, issues about women bishops, are not the only potentially divisive things within our Church. In effect what we are doing is, we are giving anybody who falls out with the Diocesan Bishop for whatever reason a kind of quick escape route out of the mainline life of the CofE. I can’t think that in that context anybody ever grows up. So I am nervous of this though it has to be said that a lot of people who I respect greatly have aligned themselves with some of these networks. It is not my own intention to do so for what’s its worth…
The whole speech is worth a visit.
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