“We fear most what we do not know”. That statement appears on the website of NIFCON, The Network for Inter Faith Concerns of the Anglican Communion. Interfaith issues first appeared in a limited way at the 1988 Lambeth Conference. Five years later NIFCON was founded.
Resolutions were passed on ‘The Bible in the Life of the Church’, Network on Inter-Faith Concerns and from the APJN (Anglican Peace and Justice Network on the Middle East.
At the ACC-14 meeting in Kingston Jamaica the concept of An Anglican Covenant was a central theme on this, the 6th day of the meetings. Over the past few days the delegates had a number of sessions in Discernment Groups discussing the Covenant and the resolution that would be presented.
On Friday May 8, 2009 the Anglican Consultative Council meeting in Kingston, Jamaica moved into a decision-making plenary session on the Windsor Continuation Group Report. Earlier in the meeting the Archbishop of Canterbury had made a presentation on this final report ...
Resolutions were passed on the Windsor Continuation Group, The Anglican Communion Covenant and the Anglican Episcopal Church of Brazil (from APJN).
On Friday May 8, 2009 the Anglican Consultative Council broke into enthusiastic applause with the announcement that the Rt Revd James Tengatenga was elected as the new chair of the Anglican Consultative Council. Four candidates had been nominated with Mrs Elizabeth Paver of the Church of England placing second.
The subject of gender equality is one that has always faced the church. The question is, “what do we do about it?” One group that answers that question is IAWN-The International Anglican Women's Network. This group, which is a resource to the Anglican Consultative Council links Anglican women worldwide through communication and prayer.
The Revd Canon Philip Groves talks about the challenges and opportunities of the listening process and the role the new project will play in assisting people to hear and listen to God and to one another on the subject of human sexuality.
At Church gatherings such as ACC-14 the delegates experience different styles of worship, theology and conversations that fosters growth and development in each person. There are also moments when decisions need to be made-the election of a new chairperson, resolutions on very important matters and constitutional questions to name a few.
Our Anglican Communion uses a variety of resources to enable us to fulfil the great commission of Christ, “to go and make disciples of all nations”. Under the guidance of the Holy Spirit the Bible is our primary resource while our prayer and worship books assist us in this task.
During the past few years the Anglican Communion has been developing a ‘Listening Process’. The root of the process was in response to the request of the bishops attending the Lambeth Conference in 1998 in Resolution 1.10 to establish "a means of monitoring the work done on the subject of human sexuality in the Communion" and to honour the process of mutual listening...