Archbishop Drexel Gomez at the Festival of Faith

From Anglican Mainstream, an article reposted from The Christian Challenge on what Archbishop Drexel Gomez considers might happen in the coming months in the Anglican Communion:

. . .But the leading conservative primate (provincial leader) also warned of a liberal recasting of official Anglicanism if some conservative provinces boycott the 2008 Lambeth Conference of Anglican bishops. A few provinces have already determined to skip the meeting over the Archbishop of Canterbury’s decision to include therein all Episcopal prelates who have violated the Lambeth ’98 sexuality resolution except actively gay prelate Gene Robinson, and to exclude U.S. missionary bishops backed by African provinces.

Gomez also sees obstacles to fulfilling the hopes of embattled American conservatives that The Episcopal Church (TEC) would be deemed by primates this fall to have left the Communion, a move they thought could help usher in a new jurisdiction for faithful U.S. Anglicans. . .

Anglican Mainstream also offers this overview of key points in the ++Gomez presentation:

• Same-sex relations relate to God’s ordering of life and therefore core doctrine


• Little prospect of Primates’ Meeting after September 30 - ACO will plead lack of money


• Individual provinces may derecognise TEC


• Possible new US Province


• People in TEC want to root out traditional Anglicanism


• Global South see Lambeth downgraded to expensive prelatical training course


• Boycott by Nigeria alone (120 bishops) would make a big difference


• Lambeth decisions will not be representative of the thinking of the Communion


• ABC’s threat to rescind some invitations to Lambeth widely discounted

Read it all.