A desperate shortage of training for ministers in a rapidly growing church was the mesage from a key African leaders at the Sydney Anglican Synod. Representatives from Uganda Christian University, the Alexandria School of Theology, Nyakato Bible School in Tanzania,… Continue Reading
On an April Sunday, The Other Cheek was one of two Westerners to visit Gamasara church in a remote part of Tanzania. I went to Africa to report the worldwide gathering of Anglicans known as Gafcon (the Global African Future… Continue Reading
David Bennett, whose journey from gay student activist to a celibate follower of Jesus is chronicled in his book A War of Loves, has called on the conservative Anglican movement Gafcon (Global Anglican Futures Conference) to dissociate itself from new… Continue Reading
Africa is the place to find Elephants, and Dominic Steele, the host of “The Pastor’s Heart” video cast and a prominent Sydney Anglican Minister, reports on what he calls the “elephant in the room” at the Gafcon 4 conference in… 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
New Beginnings Church in Mandurah, Western Australia, is the first church in the new Diocese of the Southern Cross, (formed as a home for conservative Anglicans) to have a woman minister. The Revd Linley MatthewsWant was licensed as pastor by… Continue Reading
Cairns is the location of the third local church in the new “Diocese of the Southern Cross,” formed by the conservative Anglican Network Gafcon (Global Anglican Futures Conference). Trevor Saggers, minister at Good Shepherd Church in Cairns, has left that… Continue Reading