Archbishop Michael Peers, former primate has launched the fourth volume of his history of bishops in the ACoC.
This part is interesting, in that it is a clear case of an historian placing the stamp of his own prejudice on his work by suppressing facts that are not to his liking:
For the first time, the book also provides a public record of bishops in the Canadian Anglican church who have relinquished the exercise of their ministry during that period. They are the retired bishop of the diocese of Newfoundland and Labrador Donald Harvey, the retired bishop of Algoma, Ronald Ferris, and the retired bishop of Brandon Malcolm Harding, who have left the Anglican Church of Canada because of deep disagreements over the issue of sexuality.
The entry, however, does not state the reason for their departures. “There’s no comment…no recognition of the fact that the primate of the Southern Cone has given them a license because that is not something that the primate of the Southern Cone is allowed to do,” explained Archbishop Peers. “To give official recognition, even though this is not an official publication of the Anglican Church of Canada, but to acknowledge any official status for an action which has no constitutional basis even in their own constitution, is simply not fitting.”
He added that the book notes transfers and elections to other Anglican provinces only in cases where they are “done properly and canonically,” such as Victoria Matthews, who resigned as bishop of the diocese of Edmonton, when she was elected and installed as bishop of Christchurch in the Anglican Church of Aoteaoroa, New Zealand and Polynesia.
Books like this deserve peer review before publication to ensure accuracy unless one includes a disclaimer that the publication is an opinion piece. A real publisher would avoid it for two reasons. It might be libelous and it would never approach best seller status. So as unpleasant as this book may be for some of us it will be back-shelf in the Anglo-Lutheran Book Store for a long time