Dear friends of Kiwianglo, it is with great sadness that our family announces the passing of Ron, our much loved husband and father. He lived his 93 years to the full, and despite a cancer diagnosis about six months ago, continued to be active until his final days. Online theological debate was an important focus of his life in recent years and gave him much satisfaction and stimulus. We know he touched many people with his thoughtful (and sometimes challenging) posts. He passed away peacefully in the early hours of Friday morning, 10 March 2023. May he rest in peace ..read more

As GAFCON’s new-found addition to its congregational strength in Australia, this new parish under the leadership of former Sydney ‘Anglican’ Archbishop Glenn Davies adds one more local congregation (now totalling five parishes) to his GAFCON-based Diocese of the Southern Cross, raised up initially to accommodate ‘refugees’ from the Australian Anglican Church. The A.C.A., which – like most Anglican Provinces around the world, in their anxiety to rid the Church of historic sexism and homophobia, remains in Communion with the Founding Church of England in its recent acceptance of LGBTQI+ people a ..read more

It should not surprise many in the Church of England that William Taylor, Rector of CON/EVO Parish of St. Helen’s, Bishopsgate in the C. of E’s Diocese of London, has made the announcement (shown below) of his and his parish’s break with the Bishops of the Church of England. Nor should it surprise Anglicans around the world that among the prelates who have pledged their support to Taylor’s announcement should include people from other Churches that have declared their own disaffection from the historic Church of England and the Anglican Communion; on the important issues of sexism and homophob ..read more

Interesting is the fact that the curiously-named ANGLICAN INK should draw attention to the fact that the recent GSFA/GAFCON protest against the move by the Church of England to provide a blessing, rather than a curse, on faithful. monogamous same-sex relationships in a bid to encourage others to de-criminalise homosexuality (a biblical injunction – “Set the Captive Free”) has now been backed up by a statement from Russia’s President Putin, whose deadly mission of suppression and bloodshed in Ukraine has shocked the rest of the civilised world. One of the reasons given by Putin for his invasion ..read more

Despite the threat of schismatic departure of the GSFA/GAFCON provinces from the leadership of the archbishop of Canterbury (and, presumably, the current set up of the Anglican Communion) made by the GSFA Primates – in response to the Church of England’s decision to bless same-sex couples who have been legally married by the State – the membership of the Anglican Consultative Council (both clerical and lay) managed to cooperate on matters that are vital to the mission and ministry of Anglican Churches around the world, and whose concerns are much more realistically concentrated on how the vari ..read more

As if to give a TRUMPET SOUND for its relationship to GAFCON and the GSFA, in the ongoing spat with the Church of England, Sydney’s Diocesan paper ANGLICAN CHURCH LEAGUE is hot off the press with this article below. However, like parents titillating their children’s excitement for what ‘Santa’ might be bringing down the chimney at Yuletide; ACL has very little of any substance to reveal at this time. Maybe the GSFA/GAFCON Prelates have to find a more secure communal trysting ground, before they can go full trumpet blast with their proposed decision-making at the ‘EMERGENCY GSFA PRIMATES MEETIN ..read more

In an increasingly restrictive religious regime in Afghanistan (subsequent to their recent ban on higher education for Afghani women); the Taliban rebel government has now proceeded to ban women’s use of artificial contraceptives, by force of law. Using the excuse that contraception is a Western conspiracy to limit the birth of Afghanistan’s Muslim population, the regime is now clamping down on one of the last remaining rights of a woman in that country – to take responsibility for her own capacity to bear children – even if doing so happens at the risk of her own health and physical and menta ..read more

Seated here on his wobbly episcopal throne (eight legs?), the Chair of Gafcon, Acna’s Archbishop Foley Beach (though depicted here without cope and mitre), is already pontificating on his hoped-for collapse of the Lambeth-led Anglican Communion of Churches around the world. A question might be: “Will Foley ever be seated on the Episcopal Throne of Saint Augustine of Canterbury? Here, he talks his way into what could only be seen as his long-hoped-for ascendancy to becoming the very first (pro-tem – until a more powerful Global South or Sydney prelate moves to oust him) Pontifex Maximus of a br ..read more

Phil Ashby (a former priest of the Church of England, now part of GAFCON) makes his own prognostication on what he sees as the future of the Anglican Communion. Ignoring its status as founded by missionaries of the Church of England, with each provincial Church inheriting a koinonia relationship to the 4 ‘Instruments of Communion’: – the ABC; the ACC; The Primates’ Council; and the Lambeth Conference of Bishops; Mr Ashby ignores the existing structure of the Anglican Communion based on these four ‘Instruments of Communion’ – agreed to by each provincial Church of the A.C. When he looks more de ..read more

I was not too surprised to find on the blog-site THE PASTOR’S HEART (hosted by Anglican Minister Dominic Steele, who leads a Con/Evo parish in the Sydney diocese) the presence of none other than the former General Secretary of the stand-alone GAFCON movement – the former Archbishop of Sydney, Peter Jensen – being encouraged by Steele to offer his opinion on what he sees as the course of events that will split the Anglican Communion. See the video below from Sydney’s Anglican Church League. Urged on by Mr Steele, Sydney’s former Anglican Archbishop Jensen – after a time of sad reflection on his ..read more