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Elizabeth Berman elected sixth bishop of Hawai’i

The Standing Committee of The Episcopal Diocese of Hawaiʻi (the Episcopal churches in Hawai'i, Guam, and Saipan) joyfully announce that your Diocesan Convention has elected the Rev. Elizabeth "Libby" Berman as its sixth diocesan bishop. The election took place today, Saturday, May 16, 2026, at 'Iolani...
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First women priests ordained in the Church of the Province of Central Africa

The first women to be ordained as priests has been held in the Province of the Church of Central Africa. 14 women were ordained on May 17, 2026, at a service at the Anglican Holy Cross Cathedral in Gaborone, Botswana. Present at the service were...
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GAFCON: Foundational texts

A Plenary Address to the GAFCON IV Assembly 18 April 2023 When I lived in Uganda,...
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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...
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The next step: A new communion of churches: Thesis 13

lans should be laid at the 2023 Gafcon Assembly in Kigali – in conjunction...
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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...
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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...
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GAFCON: The Declaration of Faith: Thesis 9

The Statement from GAFCON 2008 includes the Jerusalem Declaration, which has been widely hailed as...
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GAFCON: The prophetic indictment: Thesis 8

PREFACE: How the Jerusalem Statement Came to Be The Jerusalem Statement from GAFCON 2008 is the foundational...
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The Road to GAFCON: Thesis 6

The second group of theses – “The Gafcon Response” – sketches the events that...
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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...
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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...
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Marriage and the three-way light bulb

I happen to like three-way light bulbs. They make it possible to have background...
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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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Elizabeth Berman elected sixth bishop of Hawai’i

The Standing Committee of The Episcopal Diocese of Hawaiʻi (the Episcopal churches in Hawai'i,...
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First women priests ordained in the Church of the Province of Central Africa

The first women to be ordained as priests has been held in the Province...
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Why I remain an Episcopalian

Bad bishops are not a new problem. Bad doctrine promoted by those charged to...
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Bishop of Oxford and imam ask Oxford Union to withdraw Tommy Robinson invitation

The Bishop of Oxford, the Rt. Rev. Dr. Steven Croft, and Imam Monawar Hussain...