Projo: life continues for the Diocese

There's a decent article on the front page of today's Providence Journal about the recent goings-on with General Convention, the Anglican Communion, and our diocese. Basically it says that while some people are worked up, life continues for ordinary parishioners in ordinary parishes.

"Yes, it would be a great loss if we were thrown out of the Anglican Communion, but I think the reality is that, for the vast majority of Episcopalians, what goes on at the upper levels of the church is removed from how people live out their lives in the parishes," says the Rev. William R. Locke, rector of St. Paul's Episcopal Church in Pawtucket and one of Rhode Island's eight deputies to the convention.

Here's another bit, quoting Bishop Wolf:

Bishop Wolf says she believes the resolution as approved fell short of what the Windsor Report indicated was the minimum that needed to be done, "but it was the best we could do."

Finally, this quotes Neal Goldsborough, sometime seminary classmate of one Peter Akinola:

And having gone to seminary with Archbishop Peter Akinola, the conservative primate of Nigeria, Father Goldsborough says he believes that those conservative parishes that have spoken so freely about quitting their dioceses and placing themselves under the jurisdiction of an African bishop may want to consider the implications of such a move.

"Do Americans really want to be under the control of an autocratic sub-Saharan African bishop?" the priest asks. "I think not. One of the reasons the Episcopal Church was formed two centuries ago was that Americans didn't want to be under the control of a bishop in England.