Anglican Covenant Section 4 Working Group

The Archbishop of Canterbury has named the folks to take the lead in revising the controverted fourth section of the Anglican Communion Covenant. They are, John Neill of Ireland, John Chew of South East Asia, Eileen Scully of Canada, Gregory Cameron of Wales. Two archbishops, one bishop, and one scholar -- three from liberalish Anglican provinces, and one from a conservativish province. For those on the right who were hoping for four staunch conservatives, they will be very disappointed. For those on the far left who continue to fear the Covenant as something shoved down the world's throat by a power-hungry anti-progressive centralizing party -- sorry, that narrative just won't tell.

What we have here is the exact thing we at the Anglican Centrist have been predicting (happily) for some years now. We have the honing of the Anglican Covenant into something that will be theologically solid on the essentials, and reminiscent of Elizabethan Compromise on the questions of discipline.