Martyn Percy, eminent English Academic and until recently Dean of Christ Church, Oxford has written a severe profile of Sydney Anglicanism. “In terms of character, the muscular, masculine Victorian- Edwardian Christianity comes through at every level, Percy writes of Sydney… Continue Reading
A “Future Directions for the People of God” proposal to the 2021 Synod of the Uniting Church NSW/ACT gives the church attendance figure of 21,000. (The Synod wants to increase it to 30,000) The NSW and ACT are a third… Continue Reading
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Just to stay where they are, attracting one and a half per cent of their city’s population to church each week Sydney’s Anglicans face a $340m dilemma. By 2056 more than half of Sydney’s population will live west of Parramatta… Continue Reading
A second minister has left the Anglican Church of Australia headed for the new Diocese of the Southern Cross set up by the conservative GAFCON (Global Anglican Futures) group.Peter Judge-Mears told his congregation yesterday at St John’s Wishart, in southeast… Continue Reading
Any new churches formed by people leaving the Anglican Church of Australia to join the new Diocese of the Southern Cross will be welcome to meet in their local Presbyterian Church building. Reflecting on the help Anglicans extended to the… Continue Reading
The media gets Anglicanism wrong – but it is so complicated Anglicans get it wrong too. The ‘“simple” story of an “Anglican split” with the formation of the new Diocese of the Southern Cross by the conservative Global Anglican Futures… Continue Reading
Mark Leach attended the Gafcon conference that launched the new diocese of the Southern Cross. But he says he is a “stayer not a leaver.” Although he is a minister in Sydney his view is that there will be ‘stayers’… Continue Reading
Guest commenter Lance Lawton argues that placing LGBTQIA persons at the heart of a wider doctrinal dispute raises the issue of “why now?” So now we have a parallel Anglican jurisdiction in Australia, called the Diocese of the Southern Cross.… Continue Reading
The lead Bishop of the Australian Anglicans has stated that the Anglican Church of Australia affirmed that marriage is between a man and a woman at the church’s most recent General Synod. Archbishop Geoffrey Smith of Adelaide made this clear… Continue Reading