David Virtue writes over on VirtueOnline, "The Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr. Rowan Williams made a final appeal for unity here saying that both sides in the Communion must make a final stab at reconciliation "before we say goodbye to each other. We owe it to the Lord of the Church to try one last time."
In a meeting with delegates to the Anglican Consultative Council-14 here in Kingston, Dr. Williams appealed for the Covenant process to play itself out and for unity among the four instruments of unity, urging a renewal of the "listening process" and requesting the "moratoria" be maintained. Williams acknowledged that an "ecclesial deficit" exists and that what these words mean is that the Anglican Communion suffers from a lack of clarity about what kind of fellowship it is meant to be.
"Only if the dialogue is seen to continue, and if there is an all-round readiness to engage in conversation and discernment to the Listening Process, is there a hope of persuading the advocates of revision in the teaching of the Anglican churches to remain committed to the period of 'gracious restraint'."
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