Just a few days ago, the first Provincial Renewal Conference in the ACNA in five years—the AAC-SOMA-sponsored Rehydrate Conference in Savannah—concluded. It began the day after Ash Wednesday and was heavily focused on repentance as well as renewal. Canon Mark Eldredge often says, “There is no revitalization without renewal.” The history of revival and renewal … Read More
The work of church revitalization in the Diocese of Western Anglicans took a significant step forward this month as clergy and lay leaders from across the Arizona Deanery gathered for a regional Revive Weekend led by the American Anglican Council’s Anglican Revitalization Ministries (ARM). The gathering marked the first in a series of deanery-wide Revive … Read More
When the Martyrs’ Day Statement was issued on October 16 of last year, my immediate reaction was that it reminded me of the United States’ Declaration of Independence. When the Declaration of Independence was issued on July 4, 1776, it did not come out of nowhere. It followed years of attempts by the American colonists … Read More
The fourth and final day of the GAFCON Council in Abuja brought the week’s discussions to a close with a renewed call for biblical faithfulness, culminating in the release of the Abuja Affirmation and a closing service at the Cathedral Church of the Advent, the cathedral of the Anglican Church of Nigeria. The morning began … Read More
The Chair of the Gafcon Primates’ Council, Archbishop Laurent Mbanda, announced the inauguration of the Global Anglican Communion in the October 2025 Martyrs’ Day Statement (MDS). As that statement foreshadowed, we met in Abuja both to “confer and celebrate the Global Anglican Communion.” We gathered together under the Word of God prayerfully to discern the … Read More
