by Jonathan Sacks, Standpoint: There is an old Chinese curse which goes, “May you live in interesting times.” We are living in interesting times. Sometimes, I think the world has gone so crazy that the best account of it was that wonderful remark by Woody Allen: “More than any other time in history, mankind faces […]

by George Conger, Anglican Ink: The Primate of the Anglican Church of Australia has asked the church’s Appellate Tribunal to offer a ruling as to whether its bishops may participate in the consecration of bishops who are not members of the Anglican Communion. On 16 August 2017, the Most Rev. Philip Freier, Archbishop of Melbourne, […]

by Stoyan Zaimov, Christian Post: A draft document by members of the global Christian community is warning that unless the course is reversed, Christians could be driven out of their ancient homelands in the Middle East entirely in less than a decade. Russian News Agency TASS shared details of the draft memorandum of the 3rd International […]

by Andrew Symes, Anglican Mainstream. How should Christians respond to rapid changes in the surrounding culture? Two different approaches can be found in recent publications from the Evangelical Alliance, and the Barnabas Fund. The EA are promoting a “Movement Day’ conference in early October, which seeks to bring together leaders from church and community, business, […]

by Sarah Williams, Idea: If we believe that all human beings are created equal, that they are free to act according to conscience, to speak freely, to be treated fairly before the law; if we believe that rulers should obey the same laws as their subjects, that oppression should be resisted; that leaders should be held to account, that differences […]

Book Review by David Virtue, VOL: Conciliarism was a reform movement in the 14th-, 15th- and 16th-century Roman Catholic Church which held that supreme authority in the Church resided with an Ecumenical Council, apart from, or even against, the pope. The movement emerged in response to the Western Schism between rival popes in Rome and […]

by Andrew Symes, Anglican Mainstream. In 1997 Mark and Lindy left England to live in Tanzania. For fifteen years they were involved in a number of ministries, mainly working with church-based programmes of basic theological education, church leadership training and community development. Before they left their home country, they travelled round a dozen churches explaining […]

by Peter Jensen, Gafcon: As I write, invitations to the next Global Anglican Future Conference are beginning to go out to people around the Anglican Communion. The first Jerusalem Conference occurred in 2008. The second was in Nairobi in 2013. The Primates are summoning representatives from all around the Communion to Jerusalem in June 2018. […]

by John Dayal, Global Christian News: With all Constitutional posts captured a triumphant militant Hinduism feels it has defeated the ‘idea’ of India of the Founding Fathers Gandhi and Nehru. There is, in a way, poetic revenge in the Bharatiya Janata party, the political wing of the Hindu militant nationalism crusader Rashtriya Swayamsewak Sangh, choosing […]

By Pat Ashworth, Church Times. […] THE original vision remains un­­altered: to see a new generation of children and young people come to a vibrant, personal faith in Jesus. The 150th anniversary has been the launchpad for the 95 campaign, initiated by the widely accepted statistic that only five per cent of children go to […]