That can’t be good.

From here:

Many Anglican and Episcopal leaders are celebrating the appointment of Archbishop Josiah Idowu-Fearon of the Anglican Diocese of Kaduna, Nigeria, as the next secretary general of the Anglican Communion.

“Josiah is, above all, a man of communion, a careful listener, and a respecter of the different ways in which we are called to articulate and live the good news of God in Jesus Christ,” former Presiding Bishop Frank Griswold told Episcopal News Service following the appointment.

He is ‘committed to God’s mission of reconciliation’. He isn’t, of course, because God’s reconciliation is for us to reconcile to himself through his Son. God expects us to love one another: if a fellow Christian departs from the faith once delivered, it isn’t loving for everyone to pretend nothing is wrong by institutionalising a bogus state of reconciliation.

Connecticut Bishop Ian Douglas, a member of the Standing Committee of the Anglican Communion, said he has known Idowu-Fearon for more than a decade through a variety of inter-Anglican bodies and responsibilities and finds him “committed to God’s mission of reconciliation, both between people of different faiths and between the churches of the Anglican Communion.”

One might be tempted to take comfort in the hope that Idowu-Fearon could scarcely be worse than his predecessor, Kenneth Kearon, whose facility for churning out densely packed clichés was unmatched by even the most tenaciously vacuous bishops in Western Anglicanism. Time will tell.