Fatal Flaws in the Nairobi-Cairo Proposals

Posted on February 26, 2025 
Filed under Anglican Communion

From by Bishop-Elect Phil Ashey at The American Anglican Council:

“In December 2024, the Inter-Anglican Standing Commission on Unity, Faith and Order (IASCUFO) offered a new take on the divisions within the Anglican Communion. The IASCUFO Nairobi-Cairo (2024) proposals are the official statements of the Canterbury-led and TEC-funded Anglican Communion. These IASCUFO proposals call for a ‘reset’ of the Anglican Communion on the basis of mutual loyalty to a common faith, doctrine, and order.

So far so good. But in the process they proposed significant amendments to Resolution 49 of the 1930 Lambeth Conference, which describes the requirements for following Jesus in the Anglican way and therefore membership within the Anglican Communion.

It is these changes proposed by the IASCUFO Nairobi-Cairo (2024) proposals that simply fail to bring about the Communion—much less ‘the highest level of communion possible’—within the global communion of Anglican Churches on the basis of a mutual loyalty to biblical and apostolic faith and order. …

But why would any of us want to be included in a Communion of Anglican Churches that are held together by conversations rather than a common faith, order, and mission?…”

– Read it all here. (Bold added in first paragraph.)