Josep Rossello: what’s next?
Nicola Laver interviews the South American bishop who came to the UK on a mission which has unfolded in unexpected ways
An exodus of evangelicals from the Free Church of England (FCE) continues against the backdrop of serious fraud allegations and a culture of secrecy against its senior leadership. Both the police and the charity regulator are investigating a range of allegations against Bishop Primus John Fenwick, who is resisting calls to resign.
GAFCON in sexual civil war
Charles Raven
Date posted: 1 Apr 2021
The Primate of Nigeria, Archbishop Henry
Ndukuba, has released without warning a
statement accusing the Anglican Church in
North America (ACNA), another GAFCON
province, of departing from the authority of
Scripture.
‘The deadly ‘virus’ of homosexuality has
infiltrated the ACNA’ he alleged, and this
had
‘serious
implications’
for Archbishop
Foley Beach’s leadership of GAFCON (the
Global Anglican Future Conference, made
up of orthodox believers unhappy with
Anglicanism’s liberal sexual trajectory).
Children’s books
Date posted: 1 Jun 2021
Dear Editor,
In the May issue of en your correspondent Neil McKenzie asks about suitable books for his grandchildren. In the 1980s I was asked to tackle this very question by the Librarians’ Christian Fellowship, as it was then called. My findings, still available online, are now very out-of-date but the general principles still apply.
Free Church of England row over Bishop
EN
Date posted: 1 May 2021
The Free Church of England (FCE) – a
‘Reformed and Protestant’ body set up by
disillusioned Anglicans
in
the mid-19th
century – is facing turmoil amid calls for its
Primus, John Fenwick, to quit.
A letter calling for him to step down has
been signed by half of the UK’s active FCE
clergy, including former Church of England
ministers Peter Sanlon and Steven Hanna. It
says decisions made by Bishop Fenwick are
‘endangering the peace and future flourishing’
of the denomination.
John Stott: Abrahamic and apostolic?
Chris Wright
Date posted: 1 Apr 2021
Chris Wright suggests the scale and scope of Stott’s ministry were epic
‘I am a great believer,’ John Stott would often say, ‘in the importance of B.B.C. Not the British Broadcasting Company, nor Bethelehem Bible College, nor even Beautiful British Columbia. But “Balanced Biblical Christianity”.’ In my own assessment of John’s life and ministry I suggest a Biblical balance of Old and New Testaments by saying that the scale and scope of John Stott’s significance within the global church has been both Abrahamic and apostolic.