Letter to the editor: 'Bonds of affection', not sanctions, please

Notes: "I read Archbishop Fred Hiltz's comments about the recent meeting of the primates ('Hiltz expects sanctions on Canadian church if it approves same-sex marriage', anglicanjournal.com, Oct. 13, 2017). He's right, sanctions are not what Primates' Meetings are about. Nothing changes. In 1977, at the Lambeth Conference, they wanted to be called 'The House of Primates'. Ten years later, they wanted to be the Anglican Consultative Council (ACC). In 1993, they held their meeting in the same venue as the ACC and sat in on most sessions of the council -- not silently, either. There always seems to be pressure to have some kind of central governance, while our polity insists that we are a loose-knit communion of provinces bound together by 'bonds of affection', to use Archbishop Desmond Tutu's apt phrase". [Text of complete article.]

Subjects: Anglican Communion. Primates Meeting; Anglican Communion - Primates; Anglican Communion - Government; Anglican Communion - Structure; Power - Religious aspects - Anglican Communion