What Makes Real Anglicanism Attractive

From Bishop Paul Colton's presidential address to the Cork, Cloyne & Ross Diocesan Synod (hat tip T19; extra paragraphing added):

I also ask myself what it is that I find and have always found attractive, if also frustrating and challenging, about the Church of Ireland.  It is exactly those things I mentioned last year in describing the Anglican way: our breadth; our smudgy-edged inclusiveness.

What is inspiring is the fact that people who think so hugely differently about the things of God, can nonetheless belong together within the same church; journey side by side; worship, pray, work and announce the good news together; and discover across their differences a friendship in faith that they wouldn’t probably otherwise have.

Because of the present row which purports to be about human sexuality, Anglicanism runs the risk of becoming something wholly unattractive and unrecognisable to those who are drawn strongly to its sometimes exasperating breadth, untidiness and inclusiveness.

Very well said.