The Fellowship of Confessing Anglicans (an acronym too far) “uphold the Thirty-nine Articles as containing the true doctrine of the Church agreeing with God’s Word and as authoritative for Anglicans today.” So let’s have a look at them.
The fact that its essential activity is poaching shows that GAFCON is too weak to sustain schism at the level of the Communion and that right wingers in the US and Canada are too weak to sustain schism without help from abroad. The best that can be done–after five years of turmoil–is a redoubling of efforts to create a vampire, a province in North America.
More than 4,000 Anglicans have given their support to calls for the introduction of women bishops in the Church of England without special legislation to protect opponents of the move. Supporters gathered today at Westminster Abbey for a press conference in advance of the General Synod this coming weekend in York.
Some GAFCON pilgrims are disappointed that an explicit pro-life plank was not included in the final document despite their efforts to have their views included. It appears that the final document was relatively unchanged from the original that existed at the beginning of the conference.
The Rt. Rev. Martyn Minns led a news teleconference this morning to tell reporters about the significant happenings at the recent GAFCON conference in Jerusalem.
Updated with Reuters report. Presiding Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori responds to the GAFCON statement: Much of the Anglican world must be lamenting the latest emission
We have seen instances of intervention in dioceses whose leadership is unquestionably orthodox simply because of local difficulties of a personal and administrative nature. We have also seen instances of clergy disciplined for scandalous behaviour in one jurisdiction accepted in another, apparently without due process.
The anti-gay crusade being led by Archbishops Peter Jensen and Henry Orombi, among others, is not receiving uniformly good reviews back home.
Stephen Waldman from BeliefNet notes that the second part of the Pew Study released earlier this week contains statistics that address “the three big religion-and-politics questions of 2008”: Do Democrats still suffer from a God Gap? Which way will Catholics break in the election? And, can Obama do well among evangelicals?
The Gallup Poll released their annual survey on American views about evolution, and once again found strong support for creationism. Gallup has been asking this three-part question about the origin of humans since 1982. Perhaps surprisingly to some, the results for the broad sample of adult Americans show very little change over the years.