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Australia’s Anglican General Synod meets next week. So what?

On Sunday 9 August 2026 the General Synod of the Anglican Church of Australia will assemble in Melbourne. I will be at the opening service in the dual guise of second bass (cantoris, please) and lay member representing the Anglican Diocese of Melbourne. This will be...
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Anglican dysfunction and mysteries and kicking things into the long grass

Anglicans around the world are sometimes surprisingly English. They exhibit real skill in not saying ‘no’ outright, but are good at burying or smoothing over rejection of an awkward proposal, smothering things in politeness. There have been two excellent specimens for any sociologists interested. Last month,...
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GSFA Bishops Formation Retreat Entebbe – February 2024

Relay Trust recognises the growing strategic role of the GSFA in giving orthodox leadership...
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A ‘call to prayer’ issued to UK Evangelicals ahead of the 2022 Lambeth Conference

THE RESOURCE Group supporting evangelical Archbishops and bishops from the Global South attending the...
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GAFCON pressed from all sides

'The deadly ‘virus’ of homosexuality has infiltrated the ACNA’ he alleged, and this had...
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Bishops gear up for long Lambeth walk

According to an announcement made last October ‘the conference journey’ will begin in 2021...
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IICSA Illumination: Time for a reformed Anglican episcopate

The most eye catching conclusion of the Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse (IICSA)...
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Evangelical Anglicans on the Fault Line in New Zealand

I have been privileged to visit New Zealand twice this year. On my first...
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Gafcon Networks mobilize following Cyclone

Following the massive destruction brought to Mozambique, Malawi, and Zimbabwe by Cyclone Idai, Rev Dennis...
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A Leading Anglican theologian exposes the ‘third way’ myth

Myths are not necessarily old. A new myth is being invented by Anglican church...
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To Mend the Net?

Charles Raven takes a second look at the 2001 paper "To Mend the Net" The...

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Op-Ed

Australia’s Anglican General Synod meets next week. So what?

On Sunday 9 August 2026 the General Synod of the Anglican Church of Australia will assemble...
Op-Ed

Anglican dysfunction and mysteries and kicking things into the long grass

Anglicans around the world are sometimes surprisingly English. They exhibit real skill in not...
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“Excommunicated!” When the Roman prevails over the Catholic

But how can this be? Roman Catholicism teaches that we are “all brothers” (Pope...
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ACNA Court denies Wood motion to compel the release of Board of Inquiry investigation documents

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