Changing Attitude: Gomez 'forced to compromise' by appointment to Covenant design group

[...] Archbishop Drexel Gomez was one of the Primates who didn’t receive Communion at Dromantine but did share in yesterday’s service. Is this because, as I have been saying for some time, inviting him to chair the Covenant Design Group was a very astute move, which has forced him to compromise his previously extreme position as a member of the Global South group threatening secession?

Other reports were discussed yesterday; from the Covenant Design Group, the Panel of Reference and the Listening Process. The Primates are not in dispute over these three areas. From the limited information available, we can be quietly very confident about the work Canon Phil Groves has so far completed on the Listening Process, and on his proposals for the Lambeth Conference, which were briefly outlined. We will have to wait until the text of the draft covenant is released before we will know whether it is heading in a direction acceptable to LGBT Anglicans. Read more