‘Thanks be to God’, as us Anglicans like to say, two brand new Conservative Evangelical Anglican churches have opened in the last few months: one in Salisbury and another in Guildford.
Both have been started under the auspices of the Anglican Mission in England (AMiE) where they join a good number of other churches already identifying with AMiE’s remit and, wonderfully, there are many more churches in the pipeline.
The work of AMiE is the practical outworking of the issue currently dividing global Anglicanism: what does it mean to be an Anglican at all? The default answer, for many decades, has been that a ‘true’ Anglican, whether in England or anywhere elsewhere in the world, is someone who regards themselves as ‘in communion’ with the Archbishop of Canterbury.
‘Power is a powerful drug and the detox process is hard’
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