Time to do your homework: Read this.

From PRELUDIUM:  Simon Mein, a wonderful theologian and scholar has written an essay that is a must read. Titled, "Covenants Old and New" it unwraps the paper and reveals the shaky basis on which current conversations are taking place.

He ends his piece with the following:

"Perhaps we might most helpfully see the Anglican Communion as a kind of spiritual analog of the Commonwealth, which emerged, it seems, to perpetuate a shade of the dissolving empire. Having served its purpose, the Commonwealth is hardly seen any longer as a functioning organization; even its symbolic aspects are slowly slipping away. Perhaps the Anglican Communion could discreetly join the cortege? Or, maybe, it already has."

You really might want to read "Covenants Old and New" for yourself. Hint. Hint.