The Anglican Communion Divided

The Anglican Communion is being torn apart by a revisionist agenda that puts the promotion of sexual immorality above the authority of God's Word and above unity.

The underlying issue in all these cases is the abandonment of the authority of God's Word by the revisionists.  The presenting issue is the stance taken in relation to homosexual practice.

See the sidebar for specific areas of conflict. Below is a general chronology of events and statements.

January 2010

• Letter from Church Society Council to the GAFCON Primates regardging their paper on an "Offer of an Apostolic Constitution to Anglicans"

• Response to "Being Faithful" from the Council of Church Society

February 2009

• Anglican Primates Meetign in Alexandria - comment.

September 2008

• Press release from Church Society endorsing Jerusalem Declaration

July 2008

• Lambeth 2008 was boycotted by about a quarter of the Bishops of the Communion representing more than half its active members. The Conference was designed to embrace those promoting gross error.

June 2008

• Global Anglican Futures Confences in Jerusalem. Produced the Jerusalem Declaration.

February 2008

• Open letter to the Primates and faithful Anglicans of the Global South
• Overview of the teaching of Rowan Williams on Scripture and sexuality (summary of a report produced by SPREAD)

January 2008

• Analysis of Church of England's repsonse to the Draft Anglican Covenant

October 2007

• Press release from Church Society prior to CAPA Bishops' meeting

September 2007

• The US Episcopal Church House of Bishops responds to Primates' Communiqué
• Letter to a number of Primates regarding forthcoming deadline.
• Archbishop of Canterbury to lead secretive communion service for homosexual clergy.

July 2007

• Analysis of the Draft Anglican Covenant prior to the General Synod debate in July.

May 2007

• Draft Anglican Covenant released by the Covenant Design Group

April 2007

• Comment by Church Society on the state of the Anglican Communion and the Primates Communiqué

February 2007

• Anglican Primates meeting in Dar es Salaam
  Text of Communiqué issued
  Analysis of the Communiqué

January 2007

• Anglican Covenant Design Group announced - the group following up the Covenant proposals of the Windsor Report.

December 2006

• A Covenant for the Church of England - together with a list of signatories and questions that may be asked.

September 2006

• Global South Primates communiqué
• Press release from Church Society following communique

July 2006

• Letter to the Anglican Primates regarding ECUSA from Church Society
• Press release regarding letter 25 July 2006
• Nigerian House of Bishops respond to  reflections from Rowan Williams on the state of the Communion.
• Press statement from Church Society in response to Nigerian Bishops.

June 2006

• Episcopal Church of the United States of America (ECUSA) General Convention fails to turn back from schism.  Some resolutions of the Convention.

October 2005

• Trumpet III Statement. Statement from the Third Anglican Global South to South Encounter, Egypt.

September 2005

• The Diocese of Recifé in Brazil has seen some of the most tyranical and malicious assaults from revisionists.

August 2005

• Statement from Archbishop Peter Akinola of Nigeria regarding the English House of Bishops.

February 2005

• Primate's Statement and a response from Church Society. The meeting began to take steps in the right direction but by no means sufficient as yet.

January 2005

• A Statement from Global South Primates meeting In Nairobi
  January 27th/28th, 2005

October 2004

• Reponses to the Windsor Report 2004 from the Lambeth Commission which was set up to find ways through the crisis in the Communion.

Relevant Articles

Can the Anglican Communion survive the Corruption of the Western Church (Cross†Way 2003)

Turmoil in the Communion: Summary of developments in the worldwide Anglican Communion. (Cross†Way 2004)

Anglican Communion at the Crossroads - Press Release prior to the Lambeth Commission Report (Eames Report) 18th October 2004

The Limits of Anglican Diversity - Churchman article by Roger Beckwith examining the inflence of the Lambeth Conference on relations in the Anglican communion.

Human Sexuality: A Pastoral Letter from the Bishops of the Church of Ireland and a response from the Church of Ireland Evangelical Fellowship. Churchman article (issue 118/2, 2004) by Peter Galbraith.

A Challenge Without A Hope. James Crabtree comments on Rowan Williams paper, 'The Challenge and Hope of being an Anglican Today.' (June 2006)

The Incoherence of the Anglican Communion. Churchman article from 2004 by Andrew Atherstone.