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Anglican Division
The Anglican Communion’s disagreement over orthodoxy and practice has involved many issues that affect the church as a whole: homosexuality, ordination, property ownership, and global leadership are among the bones of contention. Though there have been dissenters and splits since days of Thomas Cranmer and Henry VIII in the 1500s, the division widened when The Episcopal Church consecrated a non-celibate homosexual as bishop in 2003. Since then, global Anglican leaders have wrestled with questions of unity, ecclesiology, authority, and globalization.
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The Bulletin
Cost of Iran War, Quiet Southern Border, and Anglican Church Split
The financial and moral toll of war, immigration slows but ministry continues, and why denominations split.
News
Conservative Anglicans Nix Plan to Elect Rival to Archbishop of Canterbury
Instead, Gafcon chose a committee-style leadership as it sought to reorder the communion due to Canterbury’s leftward shift.
The Bulletin
Young Republican Texts, Anglican Split, and George Santos Released
Controversial Republican texts, Anglican Communion splits, and George Santos’s sentence is commuted.
News
The Anglican Communion Is Coming Apart
Conservative Gafcon leaders break from Canterbury and claim the future of global Anglicanism.
News
Conservative Anglicans Call for Archbishop to Repent Over Same-Sex Relationships Stance
As the issue continues to divide the Church of England, Justin Welby spoke on a popular podcast about how his views have “evolved.”
News
Died: Jack Iker, Anglican Who Drew the Line at Women’s Ordination
The Texas bishop fought a bitter legal battle with the Episcopal Church and won.
News
Conservative Anglicans Reject Church of England and Archbishop of Canterbury
(UPDATED) Gafcon gathering in Rwanda pledges to create alternative authority structures, while Global South fellowship stays separate.
News
To Whom Shall We Go? Global South Anglicans Reject Canterbury’s Leadership
Conservative Anglicans’ gathering in April comes after the Church of England’s “disqualifying” decision to bless same-sex marriages.
Wire Story
Evangelicals Fear LGBT Blessings Proposal Would Split the Church of England
Tensions are high at this week’s General Synod, with leaders on both sides frustrated with the suggested compromise on same-sex marriage.
News
Anglican Division over Scripture and Sexuality Heads South
After Lambeth conference steers bishops to agree to disagree on LGBT clergy and marriages, African conservatives chart a new course.