The Anglican Communion and GAFCON: Interpreting the Peter Jensen interview

Posted on May 4, 2016 
Filed under Anglican Communion, GAFCON, Opinion

The Rev Andrew Symes, Anglican Mainstream“Peter Jensen, the retired Archbishop of Sydney and the current general Secretary of GAFCON, has given an extensive interview to VirtueOnline in which he expressed frankly some of his views on the current state of the Anglican Communion, and the mission of the Christian church in contemporary culture. The Virtue piece also contains some excerpts from talks that Jensen gave to the recent CANA meeting in Pennsylvania. It is worth giving these comments some analysis, as they give voice to the thinking behind GAFCON, as well as bringing to light some of the problems in global Anglicanism that derive from very different perceptions and interpretations of events…”

– Andrew Syme at Anglican Mainstream provides his analysis of the reported interview with Dr. Jensen.