The intrepid Simon Sarmiento alerts us that the anti-gay Anglicans holding their conference in Jerusalem will be sharing the city next Thursday with a gay pride parade.
Having failed to gain entry to Jordan, Peter Akinola unveils GAFCON’s new book, bearing an essay under his name, that the Church Times demonstrated last August was actually written by Martyn Minns.
Archbishop Peter Akinola of Nigeria has been denied entry to Jordan. This is an embarrassing beginning to the GAFCON conference of conservative Anglicans who now plan to leave Jordan for Jerusalem three days early. Readers of the Café will remember that Akinola, a fierce critic of Islam, has refused to answer questions about his knowledge of a retributive massacre of some 700 Muslim in the town of Yelwa in northern Nigeria in 2004.
In Zimbabwe today falsehood has almost become a national disease. Some newspapers and electronic media thrive on spreading falsehoods. They twist the truth for falsehood. All forms of persecution – torture, killings, arrests are done by those for whom falsehood has become a doctrine that keeps them to sustain their status quo…
“We have heard the reports of the recent service in St Bartholomew the Great with very great concern. We cannot comment on the specific circumstances because they are the subject of an investigation launched by the Bishop of London.”
The General Convention deputation from the Diocese of New York looks closely at the St. Andrew’s Draft of a proposed Anglican Covenant and finds some improvement but in the end focuses on the the potential dissolution of the Communion it seeks to preserve.
The Lead has been passed along an essay entitled “Our Journey Into the Future” that is reportedly to be presented to the Global Anglican Futures Convention (GAFCON) which occurs later this month in Jordan. This is a new document and not the paper published by SPREAD that appeared a few weeks ago.
The Scottish Episcopal Church is meeting in its General Synod now. The reports from the first day’s business have appeared on its web site, and are summarized on Thinking Anglicans. In their meeting, the Synod expressed a willingness to participate in the design of a possible covenant, but pointedly stopped at saying anything more committal.
To my mind we are just living in a new age. We’re in a different sort of organisation. Now it’s exploring the possibilities of this different organisation that is now before us.
Peter Jensen,
Archbishop of the Diocese of Sydney
“Great Creator God, who desires that all creation live in harmony and peace. We dare to dream of a path to reconciliation.”