Comment: Why new grassroots network Anglican Orthodox is needed
Paul Eddy
In the six years of Living in Love & Faith, what was the ‘planned, co-ordinated and delivered’ evangelical strategy against the highly developed ‘Revisionists’ strategy’, leading to General Synod backing ‘gay blessings’?
In six years, which ‘umbrella group’ has consistently provided a robust media defence of orthodoxy to Jayne Ozone’s claims, and the cultural winds? Given your answers, what confidence do you have that any ‘existing body’ will be there for you, as vicar or Parish Church when you refuse to conduct ‘gay blessings’, and the full, ugly focus of the gay lobby – media, intimidation of clergy, plus, hits you?
Doubt on Welby’s future role
Paul Eddy
If the Church of England moves towards blessing same sex-marriage, or ‘opts into’ allowing gay marriages in its churches as a result of the Church’s General Synod meeting in February 2023, ‘pain and distress will be felt by millions of faithful Anglicans across the globe’, and ‘significant questions would be asked as to whether Archbishop Justin Welby would be able to continue to lead the Anglican Communion.’
So says the Mouneer Hanna Anis, Archbishop Emeritus of Egypt, a global Statesman within the Anglican Communion and an adviser to the primates of the Global South Fellowship of Anglican Churches (GSFA), whose provinces represent 75% of Anglicans across the globe.
Symes goes off-stream from Mainstream
Paul Eddy
Andrew Symes is to stand down as Executive
Secretary of Anglican Mainstream on 1
January 2023 after nearly ten years in post.
Symes, 56, who had earlier
served with
Crosslinks
in South Africa,
joined Anglican
Mainstream in 2013 to further its work amongst
orthodox Anglicans in the UK.