"Anglican Communion Sunday"

This coming Sunday, the Feast of the Baptism of our Lord, is also called, on my churchy calendar, "Anglican Communion Sunday". Which is sort of like saying we should celebrate the unity of the House of Representatives.

There is no 'Anglican Communion' so far as I can see. The vast majority of Anglicans, in the Southern Hemisphere, don't recognize 'women priests' much less GLBT priests, or even people.

We Anglicans in the northern hemisphere have little in common with our southern church. They're growing by leaps and bounds and we're holding our own at best. They're just to the Right of Rush Limbaugh and we're to the left of the President.

We have all the money and they have all the people. We have a life-giving theology and they have a judgemental theology. We welcome women and gay folks into leadership--they reject them.

But they are growing like Topsy and we're struggling along.

Most of the southern hemisphere bishops won't even have communion with our Presiding Bishop because she's a woman.

Anglicanism is not a boat we all sail in.

Anglicanism is what it is, where it is.

There is no 'communion' in the Anglican communion.

Let's move on, ok? There are two different churches that call themselves 'Anglican'.

Go figure.