not too much

I have just returned from the 2006 meeting of the Synod of the Anglican Diocese of Canberra and Goulburn. I'm glad that this was one of the resolutions agreed:

Synod

notes:

(a) with sadness the particular tensions between member churches in the Anglican Communion at present;
(b) that these tensions have led to claims of impaired communion between member churches of the Communion and challenges to the geographical integrity of Communion members;
(c) that many of these tensions have their source in different approaches to the authority of the Bible and to different readings of its text;
(d) that Bible-believing churches, who accept the Holy Scriptures of the Old and New Testaments as containing all things necessary to salvation and as being the rule and ultimate standard of faith, and which include all the parishes in this Diocese, are not obliged thereby to agree on the same biblical exegesis in all things; and

resolves:

(e) to affirm its commitment to the Anglican Communion as an expression and only one part of the universal Church which part, in a recognisable and characteristically Anglican way, holds together diversities of many kinds with generosity and tolerance for those different views and a willingness to contain difference and live with tension;
(f) to accept the autonomy of the member churches of the Communion, realising that this has led to increasing diversity within the Communion as the canonically authorised deliberations of their councils and Synods conducted in good faith has led to differing outcomes on significant issues;
(g) to recognise that the diversity in the churches of the Communion is an inevitable result of the effort of the people of God in those churches in differing circumstances seeking that their consciences be led by the workings of the Holy Spirit to know the mind of Christ in their particular situations;
(h) to respect those members of the Communion who express different views and to acknowledge their commitment to the Scriptures although their readings and interpretations may lead them in different paths; and
(i) to support and celebrate conversations within the Communion designed to enhance mutual understanding and tolerance as we work together in a unity of worldwide mission and ministry.