This is not good, though it’s hardly unexpected.
Via ACL.

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Yet another ‘open’ letter from one bishop to another.
This time from Henry Orombi, Archbishop of Uganda, to Katharine Jefferts Schori, Presiding Bishop of The Episcopal Church (formerly Episcopal Church of the USA). AB Henry’s letter is in response to a letter from Bishop Katharine, stating that he better not visit a church in the [...]

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This is fascinating. I would never have expected McLaren to be invited to Lambeth, since he’s very ‘free church’.

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[*Total Church*](http://www.thegoodbook.co.uk/Total-Church-tch_1037/) by Steve Timmis and Tim Chester is the latest thing from abroad in Christian circles to hit our shores. I haven’t read the book yet, but we have some good friends, Row and Na, who spent some time with some of [the Crowded House](http://thecrowdedhouse.com/) gang over the summer. They came back really excited [...]

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Over Easter weekend, we had our church weekend away, not just for our congregation, but also the entirety of FOCUS church.
The theme was “The Third Day” - regarding Jesus resurrection from the dead and our resurrection on the last day. We had talks on resurrection and how it relates to us (the meaninglessness of [...]

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This thoughtful piece, The Anglican Debacle: Roots and Patterns, shows that the current ‘crisis’ in the Communion has been in the making for a long time. It charts the developments in the Communion which have brought us to this point. An extract:
However, the real seeds of the problem we now face lie in the nineteenth [...]

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Russell Powell has an editorial on the situation at your.sydneyanglicans.net.
The Anglican Church League has also issued a statement of support for Dr Packer signed by the ACL president, Moore College lecturer Dr Mark Thompson.

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This takes the crisis in the Anglican communion to a new level. Allegedly, Michael Ingham, Bishop of New Westminster, Canada,
… accused Dr. Packer, hailed by Time Magazine as the “doctrinal Solomon” of Christian thinkers, “to have abandoned the exercise of ministry” after the church where he is a member voted to separate from the diocese [...]

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Normally when you hear about a ‘tragedy’, it’s something like a child dying in an accident or a school shooting or something equally dreadful.
There are different types of tragic though, and much of what occurred at the Anglican General Synod last week could only be described as tragic.
This SMH article tells of [...]

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