A report in Britain’s Telegraph newspaper referring to the book was headlined Hardline bishops declare Anglican split and went on to declare that they had “formally declared an end to the Anglican communion”.
That was firmly rejected by one of the GAFCON leaders, Sydney Archbishop Peter Jensen, who referred to the actions in North America by churches in defiance of the Lambeth decisions of 1998 on homosexuality.
“If we’re talking about schism and the break up of the communion, that’s where it starts and that’s where the responsibility is,” Archbishop Jensen says.
Earlier, Archbishop Jensen told the BBC from Amman that the actions meant that the Anglican communion had turned “from a nuclear family to an extended family”.
There is also an article interviewing Apb. Jensen at Christianity Today online.
A lot of the reporting from the Church Times, Telegraph and some other UK newspapers appears to be deliberately misleading. I expect GAFCON will make their own decisions in due course and let us know.
There are a lot of sour grapes about.