Bishop-elect Greg Kimura’s Japanese-American grandparents became Christians in a concentration camp, and he hopes to focus on ministry to the marginalized.
Archbishop Titus Chung is the first major conservative Anglican leader to express concerns about the implications of GAFCON’s Global Anglican Communion.
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.
Archbishop Steve Wood is accused of making sexual advances toward a staff member at his South Carolina church, as well as financial impropriety, plagiarism, and bullying.
The schism focuses on the authority of Continuing Anglicanism’s founding text, with tensions heightened by the UECNA’s fellowship with a German Reformed denomination.
Bishop Rowe said the church is avoiding public statements full of outrage on divisive issues like immigration and the war in Gaza, instead listening to those most affected.
We have need of you, my brothers and sisters in the Lord. With you, we strive “to contend for the faith that was once for all delivered to the saints.”
The Secretary General urged engagement with the Nairobi-Cairo Proposals and spoke kindly of GAFCON as a reform movement, while inviting its members to next summer’s ACC Meeting.
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.
Stand-alone services for the blessing of same-sex unions and permission for clergy to enter civil same-sex marriages will now require action by General Synod, which will likely take years.
