I never wrote anything about the intercommunion agreemment signed between the ACC and UEC. Obviously it is a long overdue step in the right direction towards traditional Anglican unity. The curious thing is that the UEC has some sort of communion agreement with the APA. Fr. Jones wrote about this on his blog, which I am sure many of you read. Today, though, I just read on VOL about APCK bishop Florenza declaring that a state of genuine unity and full communion exists between his diocese and the ACA. No telling how the rest of the APCK bishops will react to this, but this too, obviously, is a good thing. These stories, and the success of FACA, give us even more reason to be hopeful about the future, and to be excited about being an Anglican, even in the midst of all of the crap going on in the mainline communion.
I think that once we "official" continuing churches unite, or band together in the federation, we willl be able to exert more influence and muscle on the Anglican scene in the U.S. and the world, particularly in the area of the ordination of women. With us, and the help of FiFNa, we may finally be able to put the kabosh on this notion that ordaining women is a constituent element of Anglicanism, and that it is "here to stay".
