Kyle Potter: "Anglicans Gone Wild"

Kyle offers us another must read with his peceptive reflections on the recent news from Lambeth on who did and didn't get invited to Rowan's slumber party next summer.

A snippet:

No, really. These dudes are off the freakin' chain.

Rowan Williams announced that he's sent the invitations to Lambeth 2008, the big gathering of diocesan bishops of the Anglican Communion. This will be important because at that conference, all the conservative and liberal bishops are going to have a big cage fight to determine which side gets the Anglican trademark, and whether the center of gravity in the AC is going to be officially Canterbury or Abuja.

I don't care what you say, that's totally what's going to happen.

Williams' spokesman has announced that neither Bishop Robinson of New Hampshire (he's the one married to another dude) nor Minns of CANA (the Convocation of Anglicans in North America) will be invited to the big party - which means +VGR will not have the opportunity to use his patented sleeper hold, and the conservatives will not benefit from Minns' Tai Kwan Do.

As Kendall would say, read the whole thing.

As for me, what keeps coming to mind is the old addage, "Those whom the gods would destroy they first make mad."

Which in a strange way puts me in mind of the last words uttered by the Doctor in Bridge on the River Kwai. Hmmm... Rowan as Alec Guiness with the shock of realization before falling on the detonator: "What have I done?"