Michael Ingham asks Rowan Williams for a priest for St. John’s Shaughnessy
If anyone has any lingering doubt as to where Rowan Williams’ sympathies lie in the legal conflict between the Diocese of New Westminster 
and ANiC, this might be instructive:
Bishop Michael had two conversations with Archbishop Rowan who was well aware of the diocese’s situation regarding recent court decisions. Bishop Michael asked him if he would consider casting his eye around the communion for a possible interim appointment for St John’s, Shaughnessy. Archbishop Rowan said that he would and when he bid Bishop Michael farewell he told him that “thoughts were forming.” Since then, he has been very busy preparing for his African trip. Bishop Michael has followed up on the conversation with a letter.
The photo appears to be Rowan Williams and Ingham high-fiving each other, a little used Anglican greeting secreted somewhere at the back of the BAS.
It is encouraging that, having met with the ACoC’s foremost heretic bishop and progenitor of the cataclysmic mess that represents Canadian Anglicanism, Rowan has some thoughts forming.
You should put this on the Essentials blog, David.
I wouldn’t put too much significance in this report. Bishop Ingham is the one making this report, so he has a vested interest in making it look like he is on friendly terms with the Archbishop of Canterbury, that they are buddies. Bishop Ingham likes rubbing shoulders with the rich and famous. He likes all the important, high up cultural stuff, in international Anglicanism. It is a game, it is theatre, but one shouldn’t be fooled. No one can deny the underlying tension and turmoil in the Communion.