But what's for dinner?

Looks like Rowan Williams has jumped on another Schori bandwagon. Nothing like a worthwhile secular cause to help distract from the primary spiritual, theological, moral and ecclesiastical crises facing the Anglican Communion Lambeth Anglican Fellowship.

Last Monday, at the Lambeth Conference, Bishop Winston Halapua from Polynesia spoke about a meeting of churches from various Pacific islands where the subject for discussion had been neither social justice nor personal ethics, but the bare fact of rising ocean levels. Within a very few years, the likelihood is that several small islands will simply become uninhabitable.

Nothing could have brought home more directly the issue that the conference discusses this Saturday – the church's responsibility for the environment. While scepticism about climate change is still given astonishing prominence in some western media, the day-to-day reality of rising water levels is not a matter of debate for our colleagues in the Pacific. Part of the importance of the Lambeth Conference to us all in the Anglican Church is that it lets us hear these things in first hand detail.

Okay, archbishop... but if anyone has served or eaten beef at the Lambeth Conference, I'm afraid we won't be able to take your concern as genuine. After all, your buddy Dr. Schori already warned us in her theologically profound Easter sermon this year:

When atmospheric warming, due in part to the methane output of the millions of cows we raise each year to produce hamburger, begins to slowly drown the island homes of our neighbors in the South Pacific, are we truly sharing good news?

First cast out the beef out of thine own eye; and then shalt thou see clearly to cast the steak out of thy brother's eye.