But it reveals the deep desperation to have evangelism as your first call, especially as it is doubtful that TEC has an evangelical bishop ready to leap into the line-up of hopeful wannabees, or, if nominated would have a prayer of winning. It also reveals a denomination in free fall that evangelism, not anti-racism training, climate change or whole range of woke issues as its top priority.
Read moreThe frank Paper was written by Canon Dr Vinay Samuel, former General Secretary of the Evangelical Fellowship in the Anglican Churches and a member of the Founding Leadership Team of GAFCON 2008; Canon Dr Chris Sugden, co-founder of the Oxford Centre for Mission Studies, a Canon in the Church of Nigeria and also a member of the Founding Leadership Team of GAFCON 2008,;and the Revd Paul Eddy, a former member of the Church of England's General Synod, and the Public Relations Consultant to the Pr
Read moreThe Diocese of Ohio Standing Committee weighed in saying that it had voted to withhold consent to the election of Charlie Holt as bishop coadjutor of Florida, arguing that the Diocese of Florida has a long history of discrimination and disenfranchisement of LGBTQ+ clergy and laity.
Read moreACNA Evangelical and Anglo-Catholic dioceses live uneasily with the dual arrangement. An ordinand will often choose a diocese based on whether the bishop approves the ordination of women. I personally know a woman deacon who wanted to become a priest but her bishop did not allow it so she moved to a diocese where she could be ordained.
Read moreRecently Fr. Robinson wrote an article titled Catholics vs Protestants: The necessity for Church unity. He writes: "We may not all be in Communion with each other. But we are all in Communion with Christ. That should be a good starting point. Whilst we remain divided amongst ourselves, the enemy grows stronger and more targeted. We are doing the enemy's job for them."
Read moreBehind the soft talk of reconciliation is the velvet fist of Jew hatred. The Episcopal Church has, for decades, taken a strong Palestinian stand while advocating punishment for Israel whenever conflict between West Bank Palestinians and the Israeli military erupts. At one point, The General Convention of the Episcopal Church's strong pro-Palestinian stance voted to divest from companies involved in Israel's violations of Palestinian human rights! The attempt failed.
Read moreWelby is no longer Primus inter pares; first among equals. He is no longer the leader of 75 million Anglicans. He owns a dying segment of western Anglicans who will, by any statistical measure no longer exist by 2040.
Read more"The Instruments of Communion have failed to maintain true communion based on the Word of God and shared faith in Christ"; the "leadership role" in the Anglican Communion of the Archbishop of Canterbury has been rendered "indefensible" by the failure of "successive" Archbishops of Canterbury "to guard the faith" by exercising appropriate discipline "compounded by" Justin Welby's "welcoming the provision of liturgical resources to bless practices contrary to Scripture," said the statement.
Read moreWhy is the Australian presence so dominant? Why is there an excessive white presence when GAFCON and GSFA is predominantly African and Black. One wag observed, perhaps we should call it; Global Australian Fellowship of Churches. The choices were considered "strategic."
Read more"The world only sees the negative stuff, the politics, the walking away from the Bible. [But] this conference is about the word going out," Richard Borgonon, Founder of The Word One to One, told 1300 delegates to GAFCON IV.
"What you do in [church] the outside world of today thinks is utterly weird. And worse, they now think that you are the politically unacceptable. You're the politically incorrect," he said.
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