The leader of the Church of Uganda, Archbishop Stephen Samuel Kaziimba Mugalu issued a strong condemnation of the Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby, in a Heart of Kigali video interview at the Gafcon conference. He was responding to the Church… Continue Reading
Day two of the Gafcon conference This screen will run the official sessions live and on replay. Plus interviews from “The heart of Kigali” which go live before and after each official session.
An Obadiah Slope column On the way to Kigali, I awoke as we passed over Tennant Creek and reached inside my bag to read a little more of Dean Ashenden’s Telling Tenant’s Story – his personal account of the town,… Continue Reading
“We are excited to be here this week,” said Archbishop Foley Beach, Chair of the Gafcon Primates Council, at the media conference kicking off a meeting of the conservative Anglican group in Kigali, Rwanda. “We have about 1300 folks that… Continue Reading
To fly into Kigali, Rwanda, is to be confronted with human evil while in town to meet with Christians. The Irony of this location is immense, the city where women and children who had fled into a church were slaughtered… Continue Reading
At least a couple of ex-Uniting Churches have been pondering whether to join the new Diocese of the Southern Cross, an Anglican lifeboat set up to look after conservative churches in progressive dioceses (church regions). Now the first ex-Uniting Church… Continue Reading
A long-time member of the Cornerstone community, Paul Roe, unpacks the history of the Jesus people who went and lived in the bush, founding communities that live today Right now, the movie tracking the explosive arrival of the Jesus Movement… Continue Reading
The Other Cheek is going to Africa this weekend. Destination: Kigali, the capital of Rwanda. The reason: the meeting of Gafcon – the Global Anglican Futures Conference, which draws together the evangelicals, charismatics and conservative Anglo Catholics who make up… Continue Reading
The Uniting Church is closing churches, right? Well, actually, there’s also some church planting by evangelical groups in the Uniting Church, sometimes into old Uniting church buildings that have seen better days. Kurralta Park, an inner suburb of Adelaide, might… Continue Reading
An Obadiah Slope column. Obadiah is curious to know if Peter Dutton was away the week they studied 1 Kings or 2 Chronicles at his alma mater, St Paul’s Anglican School, Bald Hills. But Dutton would have learned a valuable… Continue Reading