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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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A Dark Captivity Parades in Full View: the rise in antisemitism within Western nations

This week marked the observance of Jewish Remembrance Day, Yom HaShoah – the day...
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Profanation: Dishonour and Disorder

“He will render to each one according to his works: to those who by...
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Whose Justice? Whose Jesus?

In my previous article on the use of language to advance an argument or a...
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Dancing into Destruction

The prudent sees danger and hides himself, but the simple go on and suffer...
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Narratives of manipulation: words in the service of power

Last week’s statement by the Archbishop of York in which he accused Israel of...
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The War on Reality

“You shall not bear false witness…”  Exodus 20:16 The contemporary phenomenon of gender ideologies which...
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Desecration of the Holy and the rise of an antichrist spirit

“This is the spirit of the antichrist, which you heard was coming and now...
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Rumours of War: reading the signs of the times.

“You know how to interpret the appearance of the sky, but you cannot interpret...
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The reordering of the Anglican Communion and the correlation with contemporary events in the geopolitical world order

The Revd. William Taylor, rector of St Helens Bishopsgate, in a recent interview described...
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Domestic Blessings?

An addendum to the communique from the last Episcopal Synod of the Anglican Church...
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South African church will be tarred by the CoE bishops’ approval of gay blessings

People here, (in South Africa), both lay and ordained are shocked and appalled that...
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Marriage, an errant anthropology, and a war on reality

Recently a draft marriage policy was issued by a South African Government department for...
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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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