150 at meeting in Oxford Diocese to consider Alliance Agenda

Posted on November 23, 2024 
Filed under Church of England, Culture wars

“Contrary to the views of some, there are far more than a minority of clergy and congregations in Oxford Diocese who hold to a clearly biblical view of the Christian doctrine of marriage and the limitations of sexual relations to a man and woman in lifelong marriage. The attendance bore out the editorial in this week’s Church of England Newspaper that ‘the episcopate is liberal, the flock is not’.

Over 150 clergy and senior lay people gathered at St Andrew’s Church Oxford to hear Rev Dr Andrew Goddard give a masterly and detailed narrative of the current state of the debate on sexuality in the Church of England and why we are where we are at the moment. The slides of his talk are attached.

Rev John Dunnett spoke on behalf of ‘the Alliance’ of orthodox Anglicans who are firmly requesting a parallel province, a de facto structure, not a formal one,  for those who adhere to the classical Church of England doctrine.  When he is asked about a ‘third province’ he responds ‘you mean for those with liberal views’.…”

– Report at Anglican Mainstream.