NOT OUR FATHERS BUSINESS: ¨The Anglican Covenant deserves no time, no energy no more paper and ink and no more thought...¨ Fred Schwartz, San Joaquin, TEC

Absolutely, Positively, The Last Time I Will Write About the Anglican Covenant (Until Next time)

The REAL Anglican Covenant: "Jesus replied: “‘Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.’[a] 38 This is the first and greatest commandment. 39 And the second is like it: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’[b] 40 All the Law and the Prophets hang on these two commandments.” Matthew 22:37-40. This passage also appears in Mark and Luke in slightly different language but the same covenant.

Once again, many of our most learned members of the Episcopal Church continue to grind on the Anglican Communion Covenant. Is this not a waste of time, talent, and treasure? Could these folks better spend their time figuring out "how many angels can dance on the head of a pin"?

are the Episcopal Church of the United States of America and by now, it is clear to the international community that the covenant we follow is summed up in the two great commandments. Nothing is going to change that. Nothing is going to somehow magically change the voices of those who would punish and kill those members of our community that wish to "have life abundantly". We work on our relationship with God and our neighbor virtually everyday and nothing he Global south or the folks that like to confess everything but their sins against their fellow man/woman can say or do to stop us.

So I ask, why all the "deep and serious" writing about "The Anglican Covenant"? If it is because the Archbishop of Canterbury "asked" us to I need to say why? The last time that happened in any serious vein I think we formed and Army and beat the snot out of Cornwallis. Do we think that somehow the "Anglican Communion" in all it's glory outweighs the message in Matthew, Mark, and Luke? I certainly hope not. Does it make any sense at all to "review and discuss and vote" on a covenant that will set up the primates so that they can then be the new and improved Matthew, Mark, Luke and John? For my money, I have heard nothing from a single one of them, including the Archduke of ACNA and the Global South that even closely approximates the message Jesus gave us. Why then would we allow this bigoted, mean-spirited, evil group of men "run the Anglican Communion" let alone tell us how and what to think.

This covenant deserves no time, no energy, no more paper and ink and no more thought. We need to use our precious resources to serve the hungry, needy, naked, and imprisoned. We need to be about "our Father's business." HERE

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The ANGLICAN COVENANT according to FRED SCHWARTZ: ¨The Anglican Communion should promote the healthy relationship between each individual and his/her God¨

Dr. Rowan Williams, Archbishop of Canterbury, ought promote ¨Healthy relationships between individuals and God¨ and not ramrod a punitive Anglican Communion Covenant

¨...One thing I find immutable at this point in my life. There are two great commandments. I find that Moses had ten and gave us all ten but those ten can be reduced to the two that Jesus gave us. First, love God with all your heart and all your mind and all your soul and, love your neighbor as yourself. (On these two commandments hang all the laws and the prophets.) But even having figured this much out, God's existence does not depend on me and these two commandments, only my relationship with God and my neighbor.

And so my actions, insofar as they affect my relationship with God and my neighbor depend on those things. Should there be more? Can there be more? What about all the other stuff like tradition and the Anglican Communion and the Archbishop of Canterbury and all that stuff? Well, that which I have described informs ALL my other actions and decisions. Notice that I said it informs MY actions and decisions. I have chosen to be Episcopal/Catholic (another time for that definition). I will say this much, since it has taken me about forever to get here (and I apologize to those who have been here and those who should have been here and were held out for reasons not entirely clear) that in my basic understanding as written about above, no one is excluded from participating. Not a single solitary soul. It cannot be, it should not be, it must not be.

Insofar as the Anglican Communion is concerned, if it promotes that which I have described, then we should keep it. If it does not, then jettison it just like so much flotsam and jetsam. The Anglican Communion should promote the healthy relationship between each individual and his/her God. I do not see that as happening, at least not right now. It has become an impediment to our journey and should be released. Nothing terrible will happen. God will not cease to exist because we do not belong to this Anglican Communion. Our relationship with our God and our neighbor will not be irreparably damaged if it goes away. Let others argue about the Covenant and about the Communion, it has become a millstone around our necks. Time to move on, time to get back to what matters, time to renew our relationship with God and our neighbors -- ALL our neighbors!
read it all, HERE

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