There was a pause and he sat down. At that point the Primate from Pakistan the Rt. Rev. Dr. Alexander John Malik got to his feet and said, "Archbishop Hutchison I hope you don't mind that when we have the next Primate's meeting that I bring along my four wives. You see in my country the government has passed a law saying it is legal to have four wives. I take it you would have no objection. Clearly it is a justice issue."

While the panel members has yet to be announced, having one of the most flagrantly ultra-liberal Primates of the Anglican Communion to head it is a major slap in the face at the Global South and will do nothing to heal the wounds in the Episcopal Church where it's own pastoral oversight plan - DEPO has failed miserably to provide spiritual shelter for orthodox priests in revisionist dioceses.

Invoking history, the Rev. Martyn Minns, rector of Truro parish in Virginia said in his sermon that there was a tremendous irony in that the first bishop Samuel Seabury fought the legally established authorities of his time in order to preach the gospel, and now more than 200 years later the same issue has emerged again. "At the heart of the struggle then and now was a clear choice as to which gods do we serve."

The March/April issue of the diocesan newspaper The Harvest newspaper arrived on my desk this week filled with news of the departing Christ Church, Overland Park which voted to remove itself from the diocese and the ECUSA and come under the Province of Uganda and Archbishop Henry Luke Orombi.

The spin put out by a reporter called Melodie Woerman in the newspaper regarding the departure of Christ Church is appalling in its disinformation.