co-published, with permission, with Comment is free belief, Guardian online, 17 November 2010 ‘Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold’ is a celebrated line in W.B. Yeats’s poem ‘The Second Coming’ (1920). How that relates to the Church of England and the tensions in the wider Anglican Communion, 90 years later, we shall witness next … Continue Reading
The propaganda on the Anglican covenant produced by Inclusive Church (IC) and Modern Church (previously MCU) and published in the church press reveals a most frightening development in contemporary Anglicanism. Two of the Church of England groups most associated with an appeal to reason have demonstrated themselves to be incapable of reasoned argument. They have also revealed themselves so … Continue Reading
ASKING THE WRONG QUESTION: NEW ZEALAND AND THE COVENANT The Reverend Canon Professor Christopher Seitz The Reverend Dr. Philip Turner The Reverend Dr. Ephraim Radner Mark McCall, Esq. Reports this week from the General Synod of the Anglican Church of Aotearoa, New Zealand and Polynesia indicate that it passed a resolution approving in principle the … Continue Reading
Singapore: Intellectual Centre of a Movement Fulcrum Newsletter January 2007 by Graham Kings republished, with permission, from The Church Times, 29 December 2006 To mark the Fourth Anglican Global South to South Encounter, Singapore, 19th-23rd April 2010, we are re-publishing the above article, first published on this website, January 2007. Since its first publication, the … Continue Reading
The notes in the text are hyperlinked into the end notes; to return to the text, click on the end note number The paper aims to draw out the historic significance of the Anglican Covenant for the Anglican Communion. It begins by examining the nature and reasons of the “ecclesial deficit” of the Anglican Communion. It … Continue Reading
Fulcrum Response to Consents being given to the Consecration of Mary Glasspool This is a clear rejection of the authority of the Archbishop of Canterbury, the Lambeth Conference, the Primates’ Meeting and the Anglican Consultative Council. We believe that it is vitally important for the Primates’ Meeting planned for January 2011 to go ahead, and … Continue Reading
Abstract Summary The Presidential Address of the Bishop of Liverpool is a significant development in the evangelical and wider Anglican debates about sexuality. It draws attention to key questions and is driven by a passionate concern for unity and more Christ-like patterns of discussion. It is, however, seriously flawed in its response to these concerns, … Continue Reading
General Synod Motion concerning the Anglican Church in North America Fulcrum Newsletter, February 2010 Co-published, with permission, with the Church of England Newspaper, 9 February 2010 Church of England Newspaper interview with Dr Graham Kings, Bishop of Sherborne, 8 February 2010 CEN: On Wednesday 10 February, General Synod will be debating the private member’s motion, … Continue Reading
The Final Text of the Anglican Communion Covenant: Four Key Questions copublished, with permission, with The Living Church, and Covenant, 22 December 2009 by Graham Kings, Bishop of Sherborne Interdependence and mutual accountability have always been the key features of the earlier drafts of the Anglican Communion Covenant (Nassau, St Andrew’s, and Ridley). It is … Continue Reading
The Final Text of the Anglican Communion Covenant: Clear Consequences copublished, with permission, with The Living Church, and Covenant, 22 December 2009 By Dr Josiah Idowu-Fearon, Archbishop of the Province of Kaduna, Nigeria The final text of the Covenant is the result of hard work by the various carefully selected sisters and brothers from several … Continue Reading