Why GAFCON?: The Anglican Communion over the past year
Posted on February 21, 2008
Filed under Opinion
“Criticisms have been directed against GAFCON, many of them by those considered to be conservatives. And these criticisms are not to be ignored. But for the Global South and their allies, no real alternative to GAFCON is evident, given two factors.
The first is the evasiveness of the House of Bishops of The Episcopal Church (TEC) in responding to the communiqué of the Primates’ Meeting of February 2007.
The second, no less compelling, is Canterbury’s undercutting of the Primates’ Meeting and of the Primates themselves, apparently to avoid rejection of the HOB response. By way of giving grounds for this view, this article traces the sequence of events giving rise to GAFCON. …”
Read the rest of this analysis by the Rev. Theodore L. Lewis, Theologian in Residence at All Saints’ Church, Chevy Chase, Maryland, on VirtueOnline.
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