The 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

ACNA 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.

Behind 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.

"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.