Millennia ago, we may have been bound to the land where we were born, but if anything can be proved from the Bible, it is that people of faith are required to obey the call to leave their sheltered lives so that God's purpose can be worked out. Jesus, who never traveled more than 200 miles from the place of His birth, was nevertheless critical of those who relied on their birthrights to justify their actions.

Readers might expect to find that Hays has changed his mind about the meaning of the verses that apparently prohibit same-sex sex. But he hasn't. Instead, he and his son, Christopher (an Old Testament professor at Fuller Theological Seminary), suggest God has changed his mind. If we read the Bible carefully, they argue, we'll find that "God repeatedly changes his mind in ways that expand the sphere of his love" (2).

It was not simply to take a hasty break in frantic outreach to the frail and famished in an urgent situation but Jesus intended to recommend, even command, an opportunity to enjoy private and close personal companionship with the unhurried Christ, totally available to his nearest friends in the whirl of their lives. A quiet place and adequate rest with Jesus were graciously afforded to his busy disciples. This was spiritual luxury. Jesus gave special time to tired workers; he saw this provision to be necessarily merciful.

Today it is no different, except perhaps the shamelessness with which preachers operate and the tens of millions of dollars they con from their followers. It is not just bad doctrine that is being preached by the likes of Jehovah's Witnesses or Mormons, or the heresies of a John Shelby Spong or Katharine Jefferts Schori; it is so called evangelical preachers masquerading as teachers of the word.

Holy Trinity Brompton has also expressed support for the creation of an alternative structure with different bishops.

In a recent sermon, Lucy Winkett declared: "We cannot, we must not remain politely silent in the face of this." She argued that such actions would institutionalize inequality and injustice within church structures, excluding women from leadership and isolating those who love someone of the same gender.

Largest Anglican (ACNA) Seminaries HC FTE
Trinity School for Ministry 143 90
Nashotah House 112 76
Reformed Episcopal Seminary 12 8

Four evangelical seminaries offer Anglican studies tracks approved by the ACNA: Asbury Theological Seminary, Beeson Divinity School, Regent College, and Gordon-Conwell. United Methodist-affiliated Duke Divinity School has an Anglican Episcopal House of Studies educating students for ministry in both the Episcopal Church and the ACNA.

But Smith identifies women's ordination as the first and most significant existential challenge to the ACNA, and what he wrote contributed to the flurry of public online letters that the bishops of the ACNA received (here and here) leading up to the June meeting to elect a new archbishop. At one point Smith suggests that the differences over women's ordination are so irreconcilable they could portend a divorce:

With the emergence of the current European Union the Christian values and ideals fostered by Alcuin, and maintained by eminent thinkers of his persuasion, have been rudely discarded by the architects of the current EU constitution and its ambitions for the success of this massive economic community spanning the continent, striving at its center to realize the cunningly contrived ultimate goal of a federated super state able to rival even the USA on the world stage.