Posts Tagged ‘GAFCON’
Lambeth Begins
The Lambeth Conference, the once-every-ten-years gathering of all Anglican bishops, began today. It’s big in the news at the moment, what with controversy over GAFCON, Gene Robinson, women bishops and the non-attendance of the Africans all coinciding. It is likely to remain so over the next three weeks, not least because there’s nothing the media [...]
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Tags: anglican church, Anglican Communion, Archbishop of Caterbury, Canterbury, GAFCON, Gene Robinson, Global Anglican Future Conference, Lambeth Conference, Rowan Williams, Women Bishops
GAFCON: Anglican Split
Well, the declaration is published, and the initial analysis is flowing in. The primates attending the Global Anglican Future CONference have decided to form a ‘fellowship of confessing Anglicans’, which may or may not recognize Canterbury and the leaders of the Episcopal Churches in the US and Canada.
The fellowship has defined itself doctrinally, holding on [...]
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Tags: faith, anglican church, anglican, Lambeth Conference, GAFCON, Global Anglican Future Conference, Rowan Williams, Anglican Communion, Archbishop of Caterbury, Cantuar
Why GAFCON matters
I was quite flippant about GAFCON (the Global Anglican Future CONference) in my last post. The thing is, while I acknowledge that this is something that will bore or bemuse the vast majority, I think it is actually a hugely significant event.
The BBC and the broadsheets certainly think so. Dave Walker, over at the church [...]
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Tags: faith, women in ministry, Christianity, anglican church, anglican, Lambeth Conference, homosexuality, Evangelical Christianity, GAFCON, Global Anglican Future Conference, Women Bishops, Anglican Communion, schism
No-one else will care about this (it drew numerous blank looks when I was asked to explain it at the weekend), but GAFCON began today.
No, this isn’t come high tech conference dealing in the latest GPS-related gadgets or a superhero-fans get together: GAFCON is the Global Anglican Future CONference, a gathering of right-wing, ‘conservative’ clergy [...]
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Tags: anglican, Anglican Mainstream, Bishops, Comic-Con, controversy, faith, GAFCON, Global Anglican Future Conference, homosexuality, Lambeth Conference, Michael Nazir-Ali, Peter Akinola, Reform, Rowan Williams, split, Women Bishops
