UK Times Rumor: Catholics, Anglicans Reuniting For Tour?

I pray this is true, and that it works out. Maybe even in my lifetime, or my kids'. The things that separate Anglicans and Roman Catholics are not so profound that they should keep these churches apart.

One of the best ideas I've seen written on blogs, period, was Bryan Preston's musings about the reasons God might allow his Church to split into denominations. It started in this post, and picked up in the comments:

...I’m also intrigued by the “firewall” idea. I’ve often wondered whether there was heresy or divine guidance behind these divisions. Is that original or did you pick that up somewhere?

If it’s yours, there’s a whole book in it.

Posted by See-Dubya at February 17, 2005 02:44 AM

Well, it’s part of an idea that came about in a Sunday School class I taught a few years ago. It was a youth class, and one of the students said she thought denominations in some way represented different tactics God might use to reach the lost in different ways, yet get them pointed toward Him. It was the first time I’d ever thought of denominations as anything positive, but it made a kind of sense I couldn’t ignore. From that idea, years later, flowed this one—that the denominations also help protect the body from rampant heresy.

Posted by bp at February 17, 2005 05:35 AM

Now the Anglican Communion seems ready to shake off and isolate the heresy and nut-bucket theology of the Episcopal Church, USA. And the Catholic Church seems stable and confident.

Mister Pope, Mister Archbishop, tear down that wall!