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Anglicans
Sydney Anglicans urgently need $341 million – and other churches face the same issue
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
Now there are two: a second Qld minister jumps ship to breakaway Diocese of the Southern Cross
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
You can use our church buildings – Presbyterians offer help to breakaway Anglicans
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
Not just one split. There’s been at least 50 ‘splits’ in the Anglican Church of Australia
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
Gafcon attendee says he would rather stay than leave for the new diocese
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
Anglicans: We’re not homophobic are we?
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
Australian Anglicans have re-affirmed that marriage is between a man and a woman says the Primate (head of the church)
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
The two-part communion: world Anglicans look a lot like Australia
Both sides of the human sexuality struggle in the Anglican communion are pushing their narrative as the Lambeth Conference of bishops winds down. While the numbers in the Anglican Communion clearly lie with the conservatives, progressive Anglicans push the theory… Continue Reading
Lambeth manoeuvres: Anglican conservatives and progressives each gain and lose
How do you keep two groups of bishops who deeply disagree over human sexuality in the room? That has been the aim of the Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby this week with the once-a-decade (sort of) meeting called the Lambeth… Continue Reading