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Welcome to the Anglican Mainstream website, featuring daily postings of news and articles from around the world (editorial policy here). We aim to inform and assist thinking about key issues facing church and society, from an orthodox Christian point of view.
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See the box in the above carousel for regular updates, including live streaming, of events and commentaries from Jerusalem. How to join in There are loads of ways to join in: • Much of each day’s programme will be livestreamed along with other great content. The livestream can be viewed here....
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An address given by Bishop Michael Nazir-Ali, Virtueonline: We have heard already, in song and in speech, so much of the Gospel of Jesus Christ. The Primate of Nigeria (Archbishop Nicholas Okoh) was telling us yesterday, how by grace through faith we are justified by Christ’s Person and his...
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by John Paul Meenan, Crisis Magazine: Ontario is the most populous of Canada’s ten provinces, with about 13.5 million souls, accounting for nearly 40 percent of the population of the country, most of whom live within a one or two hour drive from the border with the United States. The province has...
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by Calvin Freiburger, LifeSite: A $3.375 million defamation settlement and public apology may be just the beginning of the Southern Poverty Law Center’s (SPLC) woes. Following the news that the self-proclaimed “civil rights” watchdog had admitted defeat in a defamation suit brought by the...
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by James Risden, LifeSite: It’s quiet at the Rainbow Centre at Wilfrid Laurier University. Closed for the summer, no one answers the phones. Toby Finlay, the former administrator for that LGBTQ “safe space” on campus, is no longer there. He has graduated and moved on. Or so claims a representative...
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by Jonathon Van Maren, The Bridgehead: In the wake of last week Friday’s devastating Supreme Court ruling on Trinity Western University’s proposed law school, in which all seven judges ruling against TWU admitted that they were about to violate TWU’s religious freedom but that this violation was...
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by Peter Ould, Premier: Rev Peter Ould takes a deep dive into Theos’ research and discovers some surprising findings. Theos, the think tank that explores the place of religion in British society, has commissioned some research to explore the attitude of the British public to that sermon from...
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from Premier: Speaking at GAFCON’s conference in Jerusalem, the British evangelist Rico Tice warned God would “take his power, his spirit and his gospel outside of the institution” unless Anglicans “submit to scripture and repent of our sin”. He also revealed he...
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by Peter Jensen, Anglican Ink: As nearly 2,000 delegates from over 50 countries were travelling to Jerusalem for Gafcon 2018, Dr. Josiah Idowu-Fearon, Secretary General of the Anglican Consultative Council (ACC), wrote a letter to the Primates suggesting that his office alone should have a...
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from Christian Today: Ugandan bishops will boycott the archbishop of Canterbury’s Lambeth Conference in 2020. The 10-yearly meeting is an opportunity to bring the 80 million worldwide Anglican Communion together. But deep divides exist between the 42 provinces, particularly over approaches...
read moreBy Martin Davie, Reflections of an Anglican Theologian. […] The basic theological principles underlying paragraph 13 of the Jerusalem Declaration are thus part of the historic Christian consensus and for the reasons given above they are principles which all Christians should be able to...
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