Communion Partners

Sign up now—join our Canadian friends in a webinar with the Rev. Cole Hartin (currently serving in the Diocese of Texas).

Please join us May 2 for a webinar with Rev. Dr. Cole Hartin on Loss in the Christian Life!
Registration is now open: https://www.canadahelps.org/en/charities/communionpartnerscanada/events/loss-in-the-christian-life

For more details, please see the registration page.

You are warmly invited to join my Installation as the Archbishop of Canterbury live from Canterbury Cathedral today from 2.30pm.

The service will be streamed on the Church of England YouTube channel. Please join us to be part of this moment in prayer.

https://www.archbishopofcanterbury.org/watch-installation-archbishop-canterbury-live

GAFCON Nixes Primus Plan - The Living Church With only five primates in attendance, leaders backpedaled on what had been hyped as a historic moment for conservative Anglicanism.

"GSFA is staying within the Anglican Communion, but more importantly, we are staying with Jesus to bear witness that we must choose life rather than death and light rather than darkness."

Three Principals of Wycliffe College! At international CP gathering at Camp Allen in Texas this past week.
L to R: Bp. George Sumner; Kristen Deede Johnson (current); Bp. Stephen Andrews.
Thanks to Ajit John for the great photo!

Congo Staying in the Communion - The Living Church Archbishop Titre Ande is the first GAFCON primate to repudiate the call to break ties with Canterbury and enter the Global Anglican Communion.

Scholars ponder denomination’s future after GAFCON pledge to ‘reorder’ Anglican Communion - Anglican Journal In the wake of the declaration by a coalition of conservative Anglican provinces of its intention to reorder the Anglican Communion around itself rather than Canterbury, two Canadian scholars with years of experience in the global South take different views on how much the apparent schism will divid...

"One GSFA leader expressed concern to TLC about how quickly GAFCON had developed its plans for the Global Anglican Communion. “They are a movement; we are an ecclesial body,” he said. He also confirmed that the GSFA had not been consulted in the development of plans for the new communion, though the idea had been floated by GAFCON before."

The Inside Story on GAFCON’s Communiqué - The Living Church All 12 men who drafted the plan for the 'Global Anglican Communion' hail from dioceses and churches that have never been part of the Anglican Communion or have been largely disengaged from it for the last two decades.

Statement from Abp Titus Chung, Primate of the Province of the Anglican Church in South East Asia.
"We fully understand GAFCON’s deep concern for the faithfulness of the Church to the authority of Holy Scripture, and we most certainly affirm the historic Anglican convictions that Scripture contains all things necessary for salvation, that Jesus Christ is the only Saviour and Lord, and that marriage is the lifelong union of one man and one woman...
At the same time, our Province believes that significant existential, structural and ecclesiological questions have been raised by the communiqué—particularly regarding the Instruments of Communion..."

anglican.org.sg

St. Martin's in Houston has invited those in the Diocese of Dallas , Nov. 7-8, for an intensive seminar "Resurrection: Then and Now" featuring Bishop NT Wright, the Rev. Dr. Michael Lloyd, and other excellent speakers from Wycliffe Hall, Oxford and elsewhere.

https://www.wycliffe.ox.ac.uk/wycliffehallforum

Analysis: GAFCON Creates Global Anglican Communion - The Living Church Member churches of the new body must forswear participation in the Instruments of Communion and the chair of its council would assume Canterbury’s historic role.