Earlier this month in York their was a Church of England Synod where, the ever equivocating Archbishops of Canterbury and York, oversaw a resolution urging the government to ban gay conversion therapy. Conversion therapy is an approach that seeks to help people who are suffering from same sex attraction and want to change.
www.christianpost.com/news/church-of-england-synod-urges-uk-ban-gay-conversion-therapy-191311/
For many conservatives in the Church of England this was a step too far down the road to apostasy. A former Royal Chaplain the Rev. Gavin Ashenden and the Rt. Revd. Dr. Michael Nazir-Ali, the former Bishop of Rochester, among others have sent strongly worded letter to the Daily Telegraph condemning the actions of the Synod and calling for a renewal of orthodox Anglicanism and Anglican structures in Great Britain.
http://anglican.ink/article/traditionalists-slam-house-bishops
It appears the conservatives of all stripes, within the Church of England, have arisen and are coming together. Much like the groups that came out of the Episcopal Church to found the ACNA, we find charismatics, old high churchmen, Anglo-Catholics, and the Anglo-Reformed [those who adhere to the Thirty-Nine Articles.] The are joined by the Free Church of England, a body very similar to the Reformed Episcopal Church here in North America, and the AMiE [Anglican Mission in England.] Notably absent from this disparate collection of Anglicans is the solid Church of England Continuing. I do not expect the publication English Churchman to become a mouthpiece for this new movement.
www.christianpost.com/news/church-of-england-synod-urges-uk-ban-gay-conversion-therapy-191311/
For many conservatives in the Church of England this was a step too far down the road to apostasy. A former Royal Chaplain the Rev. Gavin Ashenden and the Rt. Revd. Dr. Michael Nazir-Ali, the former Bishop of Rochester, among others have sent strongly worded letter to the Daily Telegraph condemning the actions of the Synod and calling for a renewal of orthodox Anglicanism and Anglican structures in Great Britain.
http://anglican.ink/article/traditionalists-slam-house-bishops
It appears the conservatives of all stripes, within the Church of England, have arisen and are coming together. Much like the groups that came out of the Episcopal Church to found the ACNA, we find charismatics, old high churchmen, Anglo-Catholics, and the Anglo-Reformed [those who adhere to the Thirty-Nine Articles.] The are joined by the Free Church of England, a body very similar to the Reformed Episcopal Church here in North America, and the AMiE [Anglican Mission in England.] Notably absent from this disparate collection of Anglicans is the solid Church of England Continuing. I do not expect the publication English Churchman to become a mouthpiece for this new movement.
