Gordon Cheng - 23 June 2008 11:08 PM

Al Mohler blogs GAFCON here

Has he become a Baptist Anglican or an Anglican Baptist?
8-)
Terry

He’s a Louisville-Sydney Anglo-baptist

Tony Payne’s GAFCON reports continue.

Blogs from Bishop Rob Forsyth and Karin Sowada are on our GAFCON page.

Plus a number of on the ground video reports from Russell Powell that really give you a feel for the colour of the event.

Interesting, to me at least, that Jason Koutsoukis has used the word ‘split’ when talking about GAFCON, yet acknowledges that Peter Jensen is refusing to call it a split.

Hopefully Jason isn’t trying to talk up a real split?

Cheers,
Andrew

Hi,
An interesting report from GAFCON at VirtueOnline:

Evangelical Sociologist Says Christianity Must Engage Seriously with Secular Age
The subheading is:
The Episcopal Church has gone from sola scriptura to sola cultura

Grace & peace,
Terry

The ABC’s religion report has an extended interview with Rob Forsyth here:
Jerusalem and GAFCON

Stephen Crittendon couldn’t resist having a go at Peter Jensen:

Well there is a certain ambiguity about the role that the Sydney Anglicans are playing at this Jerusalem conference, a certain disingenuousness even.

In his public pronouncements, Archbishop Jensen seems to alternate between playing the agent provocateur who declares that the communion is broken, and the reconciler who says he wants to find new ways for the Anglican communion to live together; as you just heard there, he talks about an extended rather than a nuclear family. But it shouldn’t be forgotten that Peter Jensen is the Chairman of the organising committee for this GAFCON conference.

Stephen Crittendon couldn’t resist having a go at Peter Jensen:

I wouln’t be worried about that - t think Rob did a pretty good interview and his analysis of the three groups at gafcon sounded about right.

They have everything to play for and are certainly getting plenty of attention.

Tony Payne’s thinking processes seem to have managed to accelerate as his body has wearied.

This report is exceptionally good, and picks up on some really worthwhile stuff about translating the gospel into different cultures; it’s worth reading slowly and carefully.

Gordon Cheng - 29 June 2008 12:28 AM

Tony Payne’s thinking processes seem to have managed to accelerate as his body has wearied.

Is Tony ill or something?

Just travel sick I think. Check the link, he’s at GAFCON.

And here’s Tony Payne’s post on the final GAFCON communique.

David Virtue has a list of Anglican bishops not attending Lambeth, here.

If it could ever have been argued that Lambeth was an instrument of unity, it is patently no longer possible to talk about it in these terms.

Gordon Cheng - 20 July 2008 01:07 AM

David Virtue has a list of Anglican bishops not attending Lambeth, here.

If it could ever have been argued that Lambeth was an instrument of unity, it is patently no longer possible to talk about it in these terms.

That’s a rather long list. Forgive my ignorance, but do you know how many people actually attended Lambeth?

Gordon Cheng - 20 July 2008 01:07 AM

David Virtue has a list of Anglican bishops not attending Lambeth, here.

If it could ever have been argued that Lambeth was an instrument of unity, it is patently no longer possible to talk about it in these terms.

I think things like Lambeth have only been instruments of unity whilst the evangelicals did not protest too much about the direction things were going. Peter Jensen is merely keeping true to scripture, and speaking the truth in love.

John Cleary (he does a religion program on ABC 702 on Sunday nights) basically claimed that the Jensen boys and the Sydney diocese were acting like bully boys (probably following on from Muriel Porter).

Peer Jensen has merely stopped going with the flow; this is inferred as criticism.. we know what a wise person does with correction....