Interview with Canon Kendall Harmon: Unity vs. Schism
Canon Kendall Harmon graciously agreed to sit down for an interview on the topic of Unity vs. Schism. Despite the enormity the issue Kendall outlines a simple approach. However, I wish we had more time to delve into this issue.
Interview with Canon Kendall Harmon
Footage courtesy of AnglicanTV.org
Produced and Recorded by Kevin Kallsen
Recorded on August 2, 2006
Recorded in Pittsburgh, PA
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About 7:30 into the interview: "...people who are in dioceses that are either compromised or really compromised, they feel suffocated in their witness, they feel so evangelistically compromised that they don't feel they can function as Christians..."
Can I get an "amen"?
Later, at around 11:30, it sounds like Kendall is suggesting that a controlled, measured "intervention" by Canterbury is the only thing that can salvage the Anglican Communion at this point; and a failure to do so adequately (and fairly quickly) will result in a more violent cross-provincial intervention by the Global South, which could well have more dire consequences for the whole of the Communion. While ++Rowan's intervention in the US would certainly raise howls of protest, it might be the less of two bad alternatives. (That's my interpretation, not Kendall's statement.)
At about 19:30, he cites a key point from David Short's teaching as a prophetic word: "we have, as a movement, some ungodly anger and hurt, that we've got to give over to the Lord", which we need to continue to be self-conscious about.
No commentary from me, except to say I thought these were important thoughts.
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