Consider this extract from a Chris Sugden article in an upcoming edition of Evangelicals Now. Towards the end he quotes Vinay Samuel, “one of the leadership team at GAFCON in Jerusalem” who is asking the right questions at the GAFCON end of things: The real issue continues to be evangelical uncertainty in some areas of [...]
Posts Tagged ‘GAFCON’
Anglican Mission in England
Thursday, June 23rd, 2011GAFCON has announced a new society within the Church of England dedicated to the encouragement of ”church planting and all forms of Christian witness in accord with the Jerusalem Statement of the GAFCON Conference in June 2008.” This is an interesting thing. I wonder the extent of the overlap with other organisations, such as Church [...]
Venerable Venables
Thursday, May 26th, 2011Excellent interview with Archbishop Greg Venables, former primate of the Southern Cone. His has always been a forthright voice in the Anglican tumult. Of particular note is his reference to GAFCON in the light of the non-attendance at this year’s Primates’ Meeting in Dublin. My paraphrase – “We are not here to fight liberalism. We’ve [...]
The Nairobi Statement & GAFCON 2
Thursday, May 12th, 2011I’ve been browsing the report from the GAFCON/FCA secretariat which recently met in Nairobi. The report talks about the new chairman – Eliud Wabukala from Kenya, pictured. It also includes the Nairobi Statement. The Statement is worth a read. Most of it is unsurprising, e.g.: 8. We continue to be troubled by the promotion of a [...]
Dear FCA Primates, What’s Your Plan?
Sunday, April 11th, 2010Further to a previous post. The Primates Council of GAFCON/FCA has just met. They have also released a statement. The key paragraphs are these: This action also makes clear that any pretence that there has been a season of gracious restraint in the Communion has come to an end. Now is the time for all [...]
Sydney Anglicans in the news
Monday, October 19th, 2009And not just because they lost a big bag of money on the stockmarket. I watched some TV last night. Seriously. I even looked up the time for a program and tuned in because I wanted to watch it. Quaint. The program was ABC’s Compass (last nights show is still “coming up” on their website [...]
Communion-ications: Round-up after GAFCON Primates in London
Friday, April 24th, 2009I’ve previously mentioned the recent meeting of the GAFCON Primates’ Council in London. Some interesting comments have surfaced since then: 1) There has been some comment about the lack of media interest and the attendance of only one journalist at the associated press conference. It has been cartooned and blogged about (see picture on right). [...]
Communion-ications: Duncan from London
Saturday, April 18th, 2009Nothing particular new here, but an interesting summation of the GAFCON Primates meeting from ACNA’s point of view:
Communion-ications: GAFCON Primates in London
Friday, April 17th, 2009The GAFCON Primates’ Council has met in London and has released a communique: There is nothing surprising in here, although we might note: Nomenclature needs some work – GAFCON (Global Anglican Futures CONference) or FCA (Fellowship of Confessing Anglicans)? Even in this document there is a reference to both the GAFCON Primates’ Council and the [...]
Communion-ications – Commentary on the Primates’ communique
Friday, February 6th, 2009The Primates have released a communique following their meeting in Egypt. I present here something of a commentary, but let me first put my conclusions. One aspect of the communique heartens me – that the realigned folk associated through Common Cause Partnership / ACNA have not been rejected and indeed invited to have a seat [...]
