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Bishop of Leeds presidential address to synod

The world is changing, but stay focussed on the Kingdom of God, was the core message of Bishop Nick’s wide-ranging Presidential Address to our 30th Diocesan Synod. “The world is changing … and not necessarily for the better. While uncertainty becomes more real than ever,...

Bishop of Chelmsford’s presidential address to synod

Diocesan Synod meetings come around quite frequently, or so it sometimes seems to me. But it always surprises me how much appears to happen in the intervening weeks between one meeting and the next. This time is no exception. Since we last met...
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GAFCON: Foundational texts

A Plenary Address to the GAFCON IV Assembly 18 April 2023 When I lived in Uganda,...

The next step: What is God saying to Global Anglicans? Thesis 14

“Behold, I am doing a new thing; now it springs forth, do you not...

The next step: A new communion of churches: Thesis 13

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The next step: After Lambeth 2022: Thesis 12

Archbishop Welby dismissed Gafcon as a mere pressure group, ignored its plea, and has...

GAFCON and Global South Fellowship: Parallel lanes toward a new communion: Thesis 11

n its “Letter to the Churches” from Jerusalem in 2018, the Gafcon Assembly urged...

GAFCON: The Declaration of Faith: Thesis 9

The Statement from GAFCON 2008 includes the Jerusalem Declaration, which has been widely hailed as...

GAFCON: The prophetic indictment: Thesis 8

PREFACE: How the Jerusalem Statement Came to Be The Jerusalem Statement from GAFCON 2008 is the foundational...

The Road to GAFCON: Thesis 6

The second group of theses – “The Gafcon Response” – sketches the events that...

The breakdown of church discipline and the crisis of contemporary Anglicanism: Thesis 5

The Communion bureaucracy has been complicit in this failure of discipline. In fact, these...

Lambeth 1988 and the crisis of contemporary Anglicanism: Thesis 4

Thesis 4 The 1998 Lambeth Conference provided the first real test of the capability of...

Marriage and the three-way light bulb

I happen to like three-way light bulbs. They make it possible to have background...

The failure of communion governance and the crisis of contemporary Anglicanism: Thesis 3

Thesis 3 Over the past century, the Anglican Communion has grown exponentially in numbers in...

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Bishop of Leeds presidential address to synod

The world is changing, but stay focussed on the Kingdom of God, was the...

Bishop of Chelmsford’s presidential address to synod

Diocesan Synod meetings come around quite frequently, or so it sometimes seems to...

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After many months of hard work and difficult decisions, all undergirded by prayer, leaders...