Conservative Evangelicals lay their cards on the table
December 15, 2006

A COALITION of Evangelical and Charismatic Anglicans this week produced a covenant promoting “new, informal networks” among churches that are unable to maintain fellowship with Anglicans with whom they disagree.

The coalition includes Anglican Mainstream, Reform, the Church of England Evangelical Council, New Wine, and Crosslinks. It was said by Canon Chris Sugden of Anglican Mainstream to represent, in all, about 2000 congregations.

The coalition had “warm support” from traditional Anglo-Catholics, and was also hoping to attract other “solid, central Church of England people”, he said.

Canon Sugden is looking forward to a meeting in the new year with the Archbishop of Canterbury: “real discussions with real proposals and a real commitment to work on this together to find a good solution”.

He described the covenant as “a series of principled statements about what will need to be done in certain circumstances — not across the nations, but as individual situations require.” the rest