Will the Real Anglican Communion stand up!
(This first appeared on my blog Preludium October 16, 2025. It is the first essay on this new blog, devoted to supporting the real Anglican Communion.) Those naughty people in the Church of England have gone and done it: Through their very English process they have appointed a woman to be the Archbishop of Canterbury. This has so upset the GAFCON churches that at their meeting this week the primates of that group pronounced themselves the Global Anglican Communion, the “real” Anglican Communion, the pure and undefiled carriers of “the faith once delivered of the saints.” And in just to make sure we all understand their purity, they propose that it is not they who have left the Anglican Communion, but rather all of us in Churches that have allowed new understandings of who can lead, who can be included, and who can participate in which sacraments. Here is a tasty bit of their declaration: “Our Gafcon Primates .. resolved to reorder the Anglica...