Bishop Mark Lawrence on GAFCon and Lambeth

Mark Lawrence and I have been friends for over two decades. For many years we were in the same clergy support/prayer group here in Pittsburgh when he was the rector in McKeesport. There are few clergy in the church who I think more highly of than Mark. He is currently the Bishop of South Carolina. He attended GAFCon (if briefly) and is preparing for Lambeth and has written his diocese about both.
I can think of few dioceses more similar to Pittsburgh than South Carolina. Both are largely conservative with conservative leadership. Both have had a sense of spiritual vibrancy and excitement. I think Mark's comments are instructive because while he supports GAFcon he says that it does not address any particular need they have in South Carolina (paragraph 3). This is what I would maintain is true in Pittsburgh as well; we have a diocese in which it is safe to preach the gospel and to hold to the traditional understanding of the faith unmolested. It is the push for realignment which has caused so much disruption and anxiety in the Diocese of Pittsburgh, not our stand for orthodoxy. What is true in South Carolina has been true here - there is no need to go anywhere.
You can read Bishop Lawrence's remarks here

http://www.dioceseofsc.org/mt/archives/000357.html