For those of you who are following the goings on in the Anglican Communion, the Archbishop of Canterbury has spoken publicly about his decision not to invite the spouses of same-sex partnered bishops to Lambeth 2020. Welby reasons, “I had to consider … getting as many people as possible there and excluding as few as […]

This is significant research. Bonner and Goodhew are not partisans, but observers of growth and decline in the Anglican Communion. Both are academics that have no agenda other than attempting to see where the Communion is growing (or declining) and think about why that may be. The numbers around the Anglican Church in North America […]

I reported on this proposal a few months back, and am sorry to see that it has been rejected out of hand. It was at least a way forward that kept everyone together. Instead, we are now going to see more splintering but this time in New Zealand. http://acl.asn.au/thanks-but-no-thanks-new-zealand-church-leaders-reject-sydney-proposal/

This is a really big deal (for the Anglican Communion anyway). To have Church of England bishops acknowledging that GAFCON, but more especially the Anglican Church in North America, are a part of Anglicanism’s future is a shift in the right direction. Not because the ACNA is right and others are wrong, but because anything […]

Today I give thanks for the life and ministry of Donald Robinson, former vice-principal at Moore College and later Archbishop of Sydney. Robinson’s contribution to Anglicanism, and the Christian faith, cannot be overstated. He and Broughton Knox turned Moore into the place it is today, and his work on the doctrine of the church helped […]

This is what the Primates of the Anglican Communion proposed at their meeting in Dar El Salaam in 2007 (see especially paragraphs 25-28). It has taken 11 years for someone to finally say we should give this a shot. It’s not ideal, but it is a way forward that still holds out hope of reconciliation. […]

Today was the final day of GAFCON and it was a good one.  Several things came into focus for me and I leave feeling encouraged. I had breakfast with Peter and Christine Jensen.  Peter is the retired archbishop of Sydney and his son Michael was a classmate of mine at Oxford. Our Nigerian friends left […]

I woke up early this morning to breakfast with my good friend and former Oxford classmate Lee McMunn.  Lee is planting a church in Scarborough, England (a lovely seaside town on the northeast coast).  He was, by far, the best preacher at college when we were there and a faithful leader.  Lee is heading up […]