On Thursday afternoon delegates were given a real treat – a tour of Nairobi National Park. As our bus made it’s way around the roads of the park we soon came across some stunning sights. First gazelles and hyrax, next a rhinoceros and then even a whole group of giraffes. I’ve been to a few […]
I don’t know what is most remarkable about this story. On 12 May 2013 Presiding Bishop Jefferts-Schori of the Episcopal Church preached a sermon at Curaçao, Diocese of Venezuela. Her text for the day was the prescribed lectionary reading from Acts 16. Have a little read of the first paragraph… Acts 16:16-34 With Paul and […]
from SBS Nicely put, We will test him, as we do everyone in that position, in accordance with what we understand the Bible teaches The whole extended interview is available to watch here.
We’re not quite there, but it seems that the cat is now out of the bag. Sources have confirmed that the Eton-educated bishop will be announced as successor to Dr Rowan Williams as early as Friday, after the Crown Nominations Commission put his name forward to Downing Street. It marks a meteoric rise for the […]
from GAFCON, pdf available here October 29, 2012 The day we give special thanks for James Hannington, Bishop of Eastern Equatorial Africa, and his Companions, Martyrs, 1885 My dear people of God: Grace to you from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ. The Primates’ Council has just concluded its October 2012 meeting in […]
The BBC Reith Lectures are always stimulating. Yesterday I listened to a great one by Niall Ferguson entitled “The Darwinian Economy“. The transcript is here. There’s lots of good stuff on the current economic crisis. Ferguson states his basic thesis: In my view, the lesson of the 1970s is not that deregulation is bad, but that […]
Audio from a talk given by Peter Jensen from the GAFCON Westminster meeting. Well worth listening to as a clear explanation of where conservatives in the Anglican Communion understand the main faultline to be – not sexuality but something far more important, the gospel itself. http://gafcon.org/audio/jensenwestminister.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSS
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The GAFCON leaders’ meeting in London has closed with a media release entitled “The movement begins its mission“. It is, essentially, the first stakes in the ground marking out GAFCON’s vision of the future. In their final conference ‘Commitment’, the leaders resolved to work together in an ever-strengthening partnership, to stand by each other and […]
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from the GAFCON site, this is the address of the chair, Archbishop Eliud Wabukala of Kenya. The unprecedented challenges to Anglican identity forced upon us by the revisionist scriptural interpretation have in the mercy of God, given us an historic opportunity to rediscover the distinctive reformed catholicity of our Communion as shaped so profoundly by the […]
From sydneyanglicans.net, The first leadership conference since GAFCON in 2008 is underway in London. 200 clergy and lay leaders, men and women from more than 25 countries, are gathered in London this week. The meeting was the initiative of GAFCON primates through the Fellowship of Confessing Anglicans (FCA), which was established after the Jerusalem meeting […]
