Here’s some first comments I gave to Anglican TV on today’s election news.
Sydney Archbishop Election – Anglican TV Interview
Breaking – Kanishka Raffel Set To Be Elected Archbishop of Sydney
The Synod of the Diocese of Sydney have just effectively elected Kanishka Raffel, currently Dean of St Andrew’s Cathedral, as their next Archbishop. The results have been published on the synod website. Today’s meeting of the synod to confirm the final candidate is a formality. Raffel is now the only candidate on the “Final List” […]
Sydney’s New Archbishop
The Synod of the Diocese of Sydney meets over the next few days to elect a new Archbishop. The new incumbent will replace Glenn Davies who retired a month ago. SydneyAnglicans.net has an excellent summary of the four candidates: When nominations closed on Tuesday, March 23, three bishops and the Dean of Sydney, Kanishka Raffel, […]
Jonathan Fletcher Victim Speaks Out
Julie Roys has conducted an amazing interview with one of Fletcher’s victims, Lee Furney. Lee and I went through Cornhill in London at the same time. He was a boarder at Fletcher’s home in Wimbledon and eventually ended up reporting what was happening. Nothing was done. LEE FURNEY 30:17So, I filed a formal complaint with […]
Full Report on Jonathan Fletcher and Conservative Evangelicals Released
The Independent Lessons Learned Review by thirtyone:eight has now been published at the WalkingWith website (established by Emmanuel Church Wimbledon). The report’s scope is set out in the Executive Summary: Thirtyone:eight was commissioned to undertake an independent Lessons Learned Review by Emmanuel Church Wimbledon (ECW) in December 2019 in response to the growing number of […]
Interview on Vision Radio – “Help, My Church is Embracing Heresy”
Yesterday I had the privilege of joining Neil Johnson’s 20Twenty show on Vision Radio to discuss my upcoming talk at next week’s Church and State Summit. Here’s the audio of that discussion along with a couple of promo videos for next week. https://traffic.omny.fm/d/clips/3ffff556-087d-46b9-8a63-ab7a0141230f/b0a2d4da-1dcd-4291-a6df-abbf00874771/d6ed7ee6-f6a1-4c0b-a5a9-acd4004bba64/audio.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSS
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It’s Not Over – Evangelicals, Abuse and a Call for a Gospel-shaped Repentance
What a year 2020 has been. What seemed like a localised event far far away has spread to affect so many of us. If it’s not hit your church community yet, it can only be a matter of time. I wish I was talking about covid. But the reality is that there’s been another contagion […]
Steve/Selina McMahon – A New Transgender Minister for the Diocese of Brisbane
Over the past few weeks davidould.net has received lots of correspondence about the latest transgender priest to “come out” in the Diocese of Brisbane. We’ve held off while the Appellate Tribunal story ran, we gathered some more information and in anticipation of a story that was published in the Australian this weekend. On 22 November […]
GAFCON Issues “Commitment 2020” including contingency for “Extra-Provincial Diocese for Australia”
In a significant response to the Appellate Tribunal opinion of last month, GAFCON Australia have this afternoon issued their “Commitment 2020“. The Commitment, accompanied by a covering letter, sets out very clearly what steps they will take in order to respond to any further departures from orthodoxy in the Anglican Church of Australia. The cover […]
Bishop of Newcastle: “Our church allows for the possibility of the blessing of same-sex marriages”
The Bishop of Newcastle, Peter Stuart, has written a “pastoral letter” to his diocese which, while very verbose, has been understood to indicate that he now gives permission for “Wangaratta” blessings to occur in his diocese. In his letter, Bishop Stuart states that, Our church allows for the possibility of the blessing of same-sex marriages […]
