How about a state-of-the-art system of canals and aqueducts for people who don’t have any water?

“The narrative of the Body of Christ is very powerful,” said group member Revd Dr Joshva Raja “and currently the Anglican Communion is not properly equipped to share that narrative.”

Oh, I wish Stanley Hauerwas would make comment.

I’m glad they didn’t cheap out and try to form their working group with communications professionals from only four continents; it might have sucked.

The failure to communicate in this case is not evidence of a shortage of communicators but of lack of communion!

They’ve got to be kidding. All we’ve had for ten years is talk, talk, talk. Their problem is the western conservatives and Global South aren’t buying the snake oil the western communicators are selling.

Sooo… Help me here… The places where the church is GROWING doesn’t have enough communicators? Sounds like they have pleanty. They’re called Christian witnesses, and they seem to be getting the word out pretty well!
I guess what they mean is PAID professional communicators

During its recent three-day meeting in London, the Anglican Communion Communications Working Group, identified that strategic communications — that is, communicating proactively as well as reactively—is now, more than ever, a vital ministry of the church.

What other kind of conclusion would we expect a group of “professional” communicators to reach? I will also note that of the 10 people in this Working Groups, 4 were from England and 1 was from the USA. That means the group was heavily weighted to the modern, Western, post-modern side of the Communion. Add the one from Hong Kong and the one from India, and you have 7 out of 10 representing the British Empire.

In my opinion this is like asking a bunch of dentists if we should floss between meals.

I know the Bishop of the Diocese of Atweil in South Sudan (part of the Anglican Catholic Church). He is busy ministering to his flock and trying to work out ways to provide them with enough priests. He is also working on ways to allow them to feed and clothe themselves. I am not sure what Bishop Garang would think of these conclusions. I am sure, however, that he would be most gracious in expressing that opinion.

(From the “Rock Island” number of The Music Man)

4th Salesman: Look whatayatalk. whatayatalk, whatayatalk, whatayataalk, whatayatalk?

5th Salesman: Wheredayagitit?

4th Salesman: Whatayatalk?

1st Salesman: Ya can talk, ya can talk, ya can
bicker, ya can talk, ya can bicker bicker bicker, ya can talk all ya want but it’s different than it was.

Charlie: No it ain’t, no it ain’t, but ya gotta know the territory.

Rail car: Shh shh shh shh shh shh shh.

What have they failed to communicate?? “We don’t believe anything, you can do whatever you want”. Did I miss something? Hell, they’ve said it for 40 years and more. And they don’t seem to notice that people have *done it*. There. It worked. Now the problem is, that once you tell someone that it’s awfully hard to follow it up with “We expect you’ll get up every Sunday and pay to hear us tell you again and again that you don’t have to believe anything and you can do anything you want”.
—People don’t need booster shots to *get* a disease, just to *avoid* one.

It’s possible that they might be starting to suspect that nobody is listening. So they have to get LOUDER and say MORE.

Tacitly admitting “The Listening Process”(TM) was a fail.

The ones that scare me are the good communicators, who preach a false gospel.

You gonna get used to wearing them chains afer a while, Luke. Don’t you never stop listenin’ to them clinking. ‘Cause they gonna remind you of what I been saying. For your own good.

What we got here is FAILURE TO COMMUNICATE.