If the person running this blog [meaning me?]took the trouble to look at the reality as it presents itself today, most of the “mainstream” continuing churches have got their act together. Yes, we did have the “bishops’ brawl” in the 1990′s and old Hamlett in England. Those problems have been sorted out through a greater degree of professionalism and accountability in the Episcopate. Can no credit be given for learning lessons and making institutional reforms where they were needed?Hey, all I'm doing here is looking at the reality as it presents itself today and, like a good Aristotelian/Aquinas-influenced Christian, applying my God-given reason to understand it. In April 2013, the ACA consecrated a Bishop for whom I can find no evidence that he graduated from a four-year college, or received an MDiv from an accredited seminary. These are presumed to be the minimal qualifications for an ordained minister in a respectable US denomination. It is a principle of reason and justice that if the ACA will not provide this evidence, when it is normally provided as a matter of course, it may be assumed not to exist.
I will be delighted to correct this record if the ACA, "Bishop" Williams, Anthony Chadwick, or anyone else, will tell me what Williams's qualifications actually are.
