Conservative evangelicals representing half of the world's Anglicans launched a new global network today, challenging the authority of the Archbishop of Canterbury, Rowan Williams.So nice of them to do this on Pride weekend, too, y'know? Schmucks.
The Fellowship of Confessing Anglicans (Foca) will sever ties with the main churches in the US and Canada, whose liberal leaders are accused of betraying biblical teaching.
The group vowed to rescue people from the forces of "militant secularism and pluralism" created by the "spiritual decline" in developing economies.
Great swathes of the Global South Communion - a collection of provinces including Africa, South America and Asia - are furious with their counterparts in the northern hemisphere, rebuking them for being in thrall to contemporary culture, with the ordination of Gene Robinson, the gay bishop of New Hampshire, acting as a tipping point. The creation of the new group is a schism in all but name.
I'm still a practicing Anglican, and this makes me very sad. Apparently, the centre really cannot hold. Hating teh gheys is just too important for some people, apparently.
