This is interesting: After the Archbishop of Uganda walked out of a meeting seeking common ground among the member provinces of the Anglican Communion, the Episcopalian Church was suspended from full participation in the Communion for 3-years.
It isn’t clear from early reports whether that was the price of the Archbishop’s return, or if he left without returning because he thought that action was too lenient.
Well … ho-hum. Am I the only one who recalls Ozymandias when these stories grab the headlines?
I met a traveller from an antique land,
Who said—“Two vast and trunkless legs of stone
Stand in the desert. . . . Near them, on the sand,
Half sunk a shattered visage lies, whose frown,
And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command,
Tell that its sculptor well those passions read
Which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things,
The hand that mocked them, and the heart that fed;
And on the pedestal, these words appear:
My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings;
Look on my Works, ye Mighty, and despair!
Nothing beside remains. Round the decay
Of that colossal Wreck, boundless and bare
The lone and level sands stretch far away.”