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  • Primus sums up:

    Says ther eis still not rush. Aware of an instictive reticence. Does not feel there is a gradualist movement into the Covenant. Says links between moratoria and covenant are not clear. OUr ability to be helpful to rest of communion depends on our abilty to enage with this in our own life.

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  • I speak:

    Saying that I will be voting no.

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  • Michael Partridge:

    Wants Faith and Order board to keep the other options open. Should go into this prepapred to consider all kinds of answers

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  • Colin Sibley:

    Feels an increasing sene of unease. Supports the motion as it would othewise mean closing the door. Wants us to be clear that this does not mean that we will sign up in the end. Asks if this creates a second class of communion membership which would lead to a split in communion. Also a…

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  • Bob Harley:

    Supports the motion. Wants us to give the Anglican Covenant a try.

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  • Primus speaks on Covenant

    +David says he is aware of people who have an inbuilt resistance to covenant. Such people point to the Chicago Quadrilateral. Also speaks of a second view which arises out of our heritage too. Notes that our consecration of S Seabury was a defining point in the Communion. Says that in our reflection on the…

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  • Motion 3

    Motion 3 asks the Synod to pass consideration of how to address the Covenant to the Faith and Order Board. It will be proposed shortly.

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  • Covenant Process

    Michael Fuller emphasises that the SEC was very engaged in comment and converation regarding the covenant in 2005-2007. We are currently learning about the various drafts of the Covenant.

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  • Flying Bishops & the Covenant

    Michael Fuller notes that it was the Church of England which first went down the line of Alternative Episcopal Oversight with its Flying Bishops, something which this church in Scotland consciously rejected.

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