GAFCON Odds And Ends

It seems that GAFCON has a new logo. From the GAFCON website:

GAFCON has produced a new logo style and wording. Veritas means truth which is the vertical relation between God and humanity which is Christ. Uniti means united which is the horizontal relationship between all believers found in the body of Christ.Uniti now replaces Unium.

Unium, also means united, but as a non dictionary hapax legomenon could cause misunderstanding.

Go take a look. Is it my imagination, or is "Jerusalem 2008" more prominent than it was. GAFCON stands for Global Anglican Future CONFERENCE. And their program clearly shows conference sessions scheduled for their time in Jerusalem. And look at this piece posted on their web site They say

Pilgrims will visit traditional sites in Jerusalem during the pilgrimage June 22 – 29, 2008

but then they go on to say:

The goals of the GAFCON conference in Jerusalem are to:
1. Provide an opportunity for fellowship as well as to continue to experience and proclaim the transforming love of Christ.
2. Develop a renewed understanding of our identity as Anglican Christians.
3. Prepare for an Anglican future in which the Gospel is uncompromised and Christ-centered mission a top priority.

There are more workshop sessions planned than pilgrimage visits. But they aren't planning to try and take over the Anglican Communion, or split from it if they can't...

And my grandmother was the rightful queen of England.

Five Melbourne, Australia, delegates to GAFCON have started a blog to keep the folks back home up to date on the goings on at the...ummm... CONFERENCE--they even call it "the conference" in the subtitle to their blog. I'll be checking it out occasionally between now and GAFCON, and then I'll probably check it regularly for the duration of the CONFERENCE.

George Conger wrote this article posted on the Anglicans United site. I found these two paragraphs particularly interesting:

From among the 100 North American participants at Gafcon, chosen by the Bishop of Pittsburgh, the Rt Rev Robert Duncan (pictured), the majority of US Episcopal bishops will attend both Gafcon and Lambeth, arguing it is important to witness to the wider church the situation afflicting the American church.

Behind the scenes of the conference, however, attempts to forge a common front among the fissiparous elements of the Anglican right-wing will take place. While united in their opposition to the innovations of doctrine and discipline on offer from the hierarchy of the Episcopal Church, questions of women’s ordination, rivalries and jealousies between different American factions, as well as the traditional doctrinal divides between evangelicals and Anglo-Catholics have yet to be fully resolved.

Bishop Duncan selected? Who died and elected him Primate of the United States?

The second paragraph clearly shows those issues which will fracture any organization, be it the Anglican Communion if the rejectionists succeed in taking it over, or some conservative Anglican denomination created as a result of their planning.

Peace,
Jeffri