We entered Africa through Rwanda during their week of remembrance of the Genocide Against the Tutsi and left it driving through the backcountry towns of Tanzania, where poverty strikes like a swift punch on the chin. From manicured, tragic, yet… Continue Reading
Just as 15-year-old Ruby Roberts from Sydney has discovered Tanzania, missionary Helen Hoskins is learning how to live as an Australian after 40-plus years serving there. Their lives intersected today in the Tanzanian town of Bunda, Hoskins donating her home… Continue Reading
We had a long journey, so the Gafcon-tiki tour was up at 4:30. It being Anzac day, we held an impromptu dawn service, with Dominic Steele leading in prayer. Then off to the diocese of Mara’s Mugumu Safe House for… Continue Reading
Australia formed the Tanzanian church, Bishop George Okoth of the Mara diocese told the garcon-tiki tour group. When the Church Mission Society ran out of money and announced they would withdraw from Tanzania, Australian missionaries stood fast and declared they… Continue Reading
The Gafcon-tiki tour (my name for my mission trip) split up on Sunday. Barbara Stephens and I went to Gamasara church. I did not know what to expect, so I was tense, but the welcome was immense. The congregation proceeded… Continue Reading
The Gafcon conference is over, and The Other Cheek has set off in a minibus to meet the Anglicans of Tanzania, and see some projects the Anglican Aid organisation has been supporting. It is just like the Contiki tours of… Continue Reading
An Obadiah Slope column Suddenly the Global Anglican Futures Conference (Gafcon), which Obadiah has been reporting all week, seemed like a Sydney Swans home game with a phalanx of people dressed in red and white. They were the Bishops, filling… Continue Reading
Responding to the unwelcome news that the Primates (leaders) of the churches that contain 85 per cent of Anglicans have rejected the structures of the Anglican Communion, the Archbishop of Canterbury’s office says that the bodies he influences and convenes… Continue Reading
A decisive split from the Archbishop of Canterbury (who sits on St Augustine’s) Chair is the centrepiece of a statement issued at the end of the Global Anglican Futures Conference meeting in in Kigali, Rwanda The Archbishop of Canterbury, Justin… Continue Reading
This is the last day of a jam-packed global Anglican futures conference in Kigali, Rwanda. There will be big news, but later at around 7:30 Eastern Australian time. That is when the conference statement will be unveiled. The Other Cheek… Continue Reading