Over on Stand Firm in Faith, there is, I think, a very significant story developing as it concerns the polity and structure of the Anglican Communion (AC). Archbishop Henry Luke Orombi, Primate of Uganda and a major player in the Anglican Global South, has sent a gracious but blunt letter to the Archbishop of Canterbury, Rowan Williams, taking him to task for his failure to act regarding the theology and actions of The Episcopal Church and Anglican Church of Canada over the last decade, actions that are tearing the AC apart and threaten to undo it entirely.

I read a new resolve in ++Orombi’s letter and if the Archbishop of Canterbury does not act soon (or at all)—and if he follows his past behavioral patterns, I do not expect Williams to act decisively or at all—I suspect you will see the Anglican Communion as it now exists come apart. The Anglican Global South, of which the vast majority of Anglicans worldwide are a part, will likely decide to break its ties with Canterbury and the West—whether officially or de facto is really not important as the result will be the same—and go its own way, leaving the West to shrivel and die in its heresies. Very sad. Pray that the Spirit will move +++Rowan to act decisively and on behalf of the Faith once delivered to the saints.

From here:

[++Orombi wrote:] The first meeting of the Joint Standing Committee was later that year in New Orleans. At our Primates meeting in February 2007, we made certain requests of the Episcopal Church. In our Dar es Salaam communiqué we did not envision interference in the American House of Bishops while they were considering our requests. For me to participate in a meeting in New Orleans before the 30th September deadline would have violated our hard-won agreement in Dar es Salaam and would have been another case of undermining our instruments of communion. My desire to uphold our Dar es Salaam communiqué was intended to strengthen our instruments of communion so we would be able to mature into an even more effective global communion of the Church of Jesus Christ than in the past.

Subsequent meetings of the Joint Standing Committee have included the Primate of the Episcopal Church (TEC) and other members of TEC, who are the very ones who have pushed the Anglican Communion into this sustained crisis. How can we expect the gross violators of Biblical Truth to sanction their own discipline when they believe they have done nothing wrong and further insist that their revisionist theology is actually the substance of Anglicanism?

We have only to note the recent election and confirmation of an active Lesbian as a Suffragan Bishop in the Diocese of Los Angeles to realize that TEC has no interest in “gracious restraint,” let alone a moratorium on the things that have brought us to this point of collapse. It is now impossible to regard their earlier words of “regret” as a serious gesture of reconciliation with the rest of the Communion.

For those of you who are interested in this sort of thing, you can check out ++Orombi’s entire letter here. Please note that ++Orombi has NOT resigned from the Joint Standing Committee, but rather expresses his support for +Mouneer of Egypt who did so recently.

Please keep the AC in your prayers, especially those in The Episcopal Church and Anglican Church of Canada who have brought this crisis on.