GAFCON 2018: UPDATED
Gafcon 2018 began on the evening of Sunday 17th June in Jerusalem, and ended on the afternoon of Friday 23rd June.
GAFCON 2018 Final Statement: “Letter to the Churches”
Video of keynote addresses and other highlights
Gafcon 2018 Statement– “A Gift to the world”: – interviews with delegates following the reading of the Statement
Gafcon announces new leadership, from Gafcon website. Archbishop Ben Kwashi from Nigeria will take over as General Secretary from January 2019, and Archbishop Foley Beach from ACNA as Chairman from April 2019.
Selected Reflections:
Gafcon’s “Letter to the Churches” encapsulates authentic Christianity with clarity, firmness and grace, by Andrew Symes, Anglican Mainstream
Gafcon names new leadership for movement after Jerusalem meeting, by Chris Sugden, CEN
Bishop Harold reflects on his experience of the recent GAFCON conference, Diocese of Down and Dromore
The Christian Axis has shifted by Gerald McDermott, Patheos
Largest international gathering of Anglicans celebrates 10 years of growth, from Gafcon website
Reports from each day:
Gafcon 3 in Jerusalem sounds firm notes, (Report on Day 1)
“GAFCON is not an alternative Anglican Communion because we are the true Anglican Church” (Day 2)
Gafcon 3 highlights global mission, (Day 3)
Day 4 in Jerusalem: “This is our family home” (Day 4)
“I’ve been here – it’s God’s idea!” (Day 5)
Interviews
One-on-One with Joseph D’Souza on GAFCON by Ed Stetzer, Christianity Today
An interview with Matt and Anne Kennedy
ATV GAFCON Interviews: Rev. Dr. Noll
Interviews with leaders and delegates: Gafcon official Vimeo site
Interviews with leaders and delegates: Anglican Unscripted
A selection of conference addresses:
An address given by Bishop Michael Nazir-Ali, Virtueonline (Bishop Michael speaks on ‘God’s Church’)
Martin Davie’s seminar talk at Gafcon on ‘Human Flourishing’ here
‘The Threat of Cultural Marxism to orthodox Christianity.’ A presentation given in Jerusalem, for Gafcon June 2018 by Bishop Gavin Ashenden
Articles from just before the Conference
Authentic Anglicanism: global with boundaries, or ‘inclusive’ and Western? Introduction to why Gafcon exists and is important for all orthodox Anglicans, by Andrew Symes, Anglican Mainstream
Preparing for Gafcon in seven contentions, by Stephen Noll, Contending Anglican
More news and comment (most recent at the top – PLEASE REFRESH FOR LATEST UPDATES)
Why Gafcon? by Chris Sugden and Vinay Samuel, Evangelicals Now
Commentary on the 2018 GAFCON Letter to the Churches Part Three: Introducing the Letter by Stephen Noll
Commentary on the 2018 GAFCON Letter to the Churches Part Two: Coming to One Mind by Stephen Noll
Anglican Mainstream responds to critique of Gafcon, by Andrew Symes
Some concerns about GAFCON by Rachel Marszalek, Church Times
Experiencing the Anglican future, by Peter Jensen, Gafcon
More Christians now live in Africa than in any other continent in the world, by John Paul Sunico , Christian Post
Commentary on the Gafcon Letter to the Churches Part One: Preparations, by Stephen Noll, Contending Anglican
Pleased to be corrected by a theologian on Gafcon, by Julian Mann
Gafcon reflections, by Tom Woolford, Church Society
GAFCON, the Archbishop and Lambeth 2020 by Martin Davie
Post-Gafcon Contention – Reply to Fulcrum on GAFCON 2018 by Stephen Noll, Anglican Ink
GAFCON sounded like a great gig but now what?by Julian Mann, VOL
“Gafcon claims no global jurisdiction. That is not the Anglican way. We are a family of independent Provinces, but we are not independent of the Lordship of Christ…” from Chairman’s July 2018 Letter, from Archbishop Nicholas Okoh
‘Wilfully schismatic’ movement supports submission of women to men by Canon , Irish Times
Lambeth denies any bullying of the primates, ACNS
A turning point in the history of Anglicanism from Sydney Anglicans
Bullying the Primates across the Rubicon by Stephen Noll, Contending Anglican
A Reflection on GAFCON III and ACNA by George Sumner, Living Church
Anglican Unscripted #414 – GAFCON is the future with Kevin Kallsen and George Conger
Anglican Unscripted #413 – God is using GAFCON to reform with Kevin Kallsen and Gavin Ashenden
In defence of Anglican unity and Gafcon, Irish Times
After GAFCON 2018: Can secularism build a civilisation? by Joseph D’Souza, CP
Our GAFCON Jerusalem 2018 Report, Core Issues Trust
Justin Welby & ACC Leader Threatened by GAFCON Inroads into Anglican Communion by David W Virtue, VOL
A Reflection on GAFCON III and ACNA by George Sumner, Living Church
Church of Ireland bishop defends attendance at conservative forum, Patsy McGarry, Irish Times
Bishops’ presence at Gafcon an ‘absolute disgrace’, says Church of Ireland by Patsy McGarry, Irish Times
ACNA primate gets top GAFCON post by Mary Ann Mueller, VOL:
Largest Gathering of Anglicans in 50 Years Tells Archbishop of Canterbury to Return to Teaching the Bible Only by Steve Warren, CBN News
Essentials of the Gafcon 2018 Letter to the Churches, a summary by Chris Sugden, CEN
Welby urges GAFCON to consider the cost of rebellion by George Conger, Anglican Ink
Foley Beach and Ben Kwashi to lead GAFCON by George Conger, Anglican Ink
Anglican Consultative Council in a snit over GAFCON III’s success by Mary Ann Mueller, VOL
‘We are not leaving, we are staying,’ say Anglican conservatives by John Sandeman, Eternity News
“Indissolubly together” GAFCON III at the midpoint by George Conger, Anglican Ink
GAFCON response to ACC SecGen’s schism chargeby Peter Jensen, Anglican Ink
Ugandan bishops pledge to boycott Welby’s landmark Lambeth Conference 2020, CT
JERUSALEM: Orthodox Anglicans come from Four Corners of the Earth to Celebrate Gospel of God by David Virtue,VOL
Streams in the Desert by the Rev. Francis Capitanio, Gafcon 2018
GAFCON III: Jerusalem Archbishop urges GAFCON delegates to pursue “diversity and difference” by David Virtue, VOL
GAFCON participants lay claim to Anglican Orthodoxy by Madeleine Davies, Church Times
The Global Anglican crack up by Dennis Lennox, Spectator USA
GAFCON Jerusalem Day 2 by Canon Mark Eldridge, AAC
Proclaiming Christ Faithfully to the Nations by Anne Kennedy
GAFCON III: Nigerian Primate Calls on Delegates to Proclaim Christ Faithfully to the Nations by David Virtue, VOL
GAFCON III opens in Jerusalem by George Conger, Anglican Ink
ACNS report on GAFCON III denounced as misleading
JERUSALEM: GAFCON Launched with 2,000 delegates from 53 countries by David Virtue, VOL
Day 1: Laying the Foundations, from American Anglican Council
He set his face to go to Jerusalem
Third Gafcon conference underway in Jerusalem, ACNS