THE General Synod took note of the Standing Orders Committee report, which included changes regarding the Crown Nominations Commission (CNC). It was introduced by Canon Joyce Jones (Leeds) on the Thursday morning.
Two items related to the strategy of electing central members to the CNC, to be elected in three pairs of clergy and and three of laity at a bunch of sessions. Members within the chamber last 12 months had had difficulties in logging in to the web system and needed to resort to paper ballot forms, which Clive Scowen (London) described as “a near catastrophe”.
Proposed amendments would enable the Business Committee to increase the time allowed for voting, each within the chamber and remotely, and permit for pairs of central members to be limited now not to those members physically present on the group of sessions.
The Archbishop of York moved a series of things on how pairings would operate specifically circumstances. He acknowledged the complexity of those, something echoed by Canon Lisa Battye (Manchester): “This feels too complicated, coming out of a spot of fear,” she said. With reference to Reform and Renewal’s emphasis on “tearing up old laws”, she urged: “Keep it easy; revisit decisions made in view of the bureaucracy it entails.” Debbie Buggs (London) concurred: “Things have gotten very complicated. This was the very best we could do.”
“The work of the CNC is confidential, however it means sometimes that speculation and fantasies about what goes on in is rife in our Church,” Archbishop Cottrell concluded. “I value and appreciate central members for the godly and prayerful way they go about their business.”
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