The role of the Bishop is to supervise the activities of local church clergy so that the deposit of the faith is guarded and handed on correctly to the next generation. History teaches us that when bishops abandon that role, the whole Church enters a state of extreme jeopardy.

The Trustees have written to Archbishop Josiah stating that we will want to unpack with him in due course his criticism of GAFCON in circumstances where it is not disputed that the crisis within the Anglican Communion was started by the Episcopal Church acting independently over the consecration of Bishop Gene Robinson and has been driven ever since by the independent actions of the Episcopal Church and other liberal provinces, acting against the advice of the Instruments of Communion.

"We saw this at its most ghoulish after the demise of Diana. In truth, mourners were not crying for her, but for themselves," writes Patrick West, commenting on the rituals of communal grief from the "recreational grievers" wailing the death of their goddess-princess. In Paris, while mega-congregations of "grief tourists" beat their breasts, faithful Catholics sing hymns and pray the rosary--a counter-cultural demonstration of faith the media hurriedly gloss over.

The only caution that I would make is to recommend changing "homosexuality" to "homosexual practice," so as not to communicate that a person is culpable merely for experiencing involuntary desires to do what God expressly forbids. Jesus holds us responsible for entertaining in our minds sinful desires (see his adultery-of-the-heart statement) and for acting on such desires in our hearts, not for being afflicted by involuntary sinful urges.