“Save us, Lord our God, and gather us from the nations, that we may give thanks to your holy name and glory in your praise.” Psalm 106: 47 +++ The Anglican Network in Europe (ANiE) is a partnership of new and existing church initiatives led by the Gafcon Missionary Bishop for Europe, Andy Lines. This […]

A new Anglican Reality Check website examines the recent history of the Anglican Communion. It reveals how predominantly Western church leaders have relentlessly sought to undermine Resolution I.10 of the 1998 Lambeth Conference which reaffirmed the clear teaching of Scripture on marriage and specifically rejected homosexual practice as incompatible with Scripture. Presented in a timeline […]

St Silas Church in the West End of Glasgow has voted to discontinue its status as a licensed private chapel within the Scottish Episcopal Church. After a process of consultation and prayer, a members vote was held and an emphatic majority of 86% voted to leave. St Silas describes itself as a growing, welcoming, diverse […]

Gafcon UK welcomes the recent statement by the Evangelical Fellowship of the Church in Wales, which gives a pastorally sensitive and doctrinally clear summary of the biblically orthodox position on the issue of same sex relationships. EFCW is absolutely correct to warn of the serious implications of the Welsh Bishops’ plan to push ahead with […]

Two key figures in the orthodox Anglican movement will take part in a conference on evangelism to be held in Edinburgh on Saturday 20 October 2018.

Bishop Andy Lines has been formally commissioned as Missionary Bishop to Europe for the Global Anglican Future Conference (Gafcon) in a ceremony at Emmanuel Church, Wimbledon, today. His consecration took place in June last year in response to the Scottish Episcopal Church’s decision to redefine marriage in its canons as no longer only being between a […]

One of the largest churches in Edinburgh has voted to split from the Scottish Episcopal Church amid tensions over its decision to become the first Anglican body in the UK to endorse gay marriage. St Thomas’ is the latest evangelical parish to quit the official Anglican church in Scotland and back a rival splinter movement […]

  Evangelist Rico Tice has said he quit the Archbishop of Canterbury and York’s task group on evangelism because others on the committee follow a “different religion” to him. The author of the Christianity Explored course and minister at All Souls Langham Place in London has been speaking from the GAFCON conference in Jerusalem where […]

Please pray for those from Scotland and around the world who are gathering in Jerusalem from June 17-22 for the third Global Anglican Future conference. To find out more, check out this 12-page Fuel for Prayer booklet. And if you can, please set aside time to pray for each daily need of the 2,000 or […]

Dr Peter Jensen, General Secretary of the Global Anglican Future Conference, writes: It is no accident that Gafcon’s 2018 conference is taking place in Jerusalem. It is, of course, the birthplace of the Gafcon movement a decade ago. But the real reason is that it is the place where our Lord died and was raised from the […]

In the coming months, we will profile the ministries, journeys and hopes of some of the congregations which are part of the Scottish Anglican Network. We begin with the courageous congregation in Harris in the Western Isles. Fàilte! Greetings from Harris! We left the Scottish Episcopal Church in November 2017 and are enjoying our new […]

Below is a letter sent to the Reverend Canon Anne Dyer and the four bishops of the Scottish Episcopal Church following Canon Anne’s selection and appointment as bishop of Aberdeen and Orkney. It is an unprecedented letter in recent times and follows on from the questions raised after the appointment. Let’s keep all involved in […]

The people of Christ Church, Harris, announced today that they can no longer remain under the oversight of the bishop of Argyll and the Isles, the Right Reverend Kevin Pearson. This follows his decision to support the change to the canons of the Scottish Episcopal Church (SEC) which introduced the innovation of same-sex marriage. At […]

The bishop of Maidstone, Rod Thomas, has pointed to the break in the Anglican Communion made by the SEC’s decision to redefine marriage. He writes, “I will no longer be able to accept invitations to Christian meetings where bishops of the SEC are actively participating, unless their broken communion is recognised in the arrangements.” See […]

From 8-10 October 2016, members of the Scottish Anglican Network are delighted to welcome the Most Revd Foley Beach and the Revd Canon Andrew Gross of the Anglican Church in North America. They will meet with church leaders around the country and at 10.30am on Sunday Archbishop Beach will preach at St Thomas’, Corstorphine. • […]

On 10 June 2016, at the General Synod of the Scottish Episcopal Church General Synod, those Anglican followers of Jesus in Scotland who are biblically orthodox on marriage made the positive case for keeping Canon 31 as it is. This would have maintained marriage as “a physical, spiritual and mystical union of one man and […]

In June the General Synod of the Scottish Episcopal Church will return to the proposal to change its Canon 31 on Marriage, removing the reference to “one man and one woman”, a step it prepared for in the equivalent meeting last year, writes Oliver O’Donovan.

A proposal to amend the marriage canon to permit same sex weddings in churches will be considered by the General Synod of the Scottish Episcopal Church next month, writes Gavin Drake at Anglican News. The proposed changes, which were requested by the Synod in 2015, remove the current definition of marriage in the first clause […]

At its meeting in Edinburgh from 11-13 June, 2015, the General Synod of the Scottish Episcopal Church chose to delete any reference to marriage as being between a man and a woman in order to facilitate its clergy in marrying two people of the same sex. In contrast to that decision, we reaffirm the doctrine […]