A clear "NO!" from Aotearoa

A report from the Anglican Church in Aotearoa, New Zealand and Polynesia.

ACANZP has

"rejected the proposed Covenant
based on section 4,

but ... subscribed to 1, 2 and 3

as a useful starting point

for consideration of our Anglican understanding of the church.

We have also affirmed

the commitment of the ACANZP to the Communion

and the Instruments,

and to using procedures
similar to those in Section 3

if another church raises concerns

about what we are doing or going to do.

The whole motion has been passed in open Synod,

with no negative voice."

Official text and links to follow once we have it. No Anglican Covenant Coalition Moderator Malcolm French and the Coalition's Episcopal Church Convenor Lionel Deimel are both blogging regularly (ie, more or less daily) about the state of the Covenant debate at the Episcopal Church's 77th General Convention.