Ruth Gledhill has posted at her blog a response by Washington Bishop +John Chane to ++Rowan Williams’ Statement on GAFCON.  I’ve not yet included it above because I was looking for an official link on the Dio. Washington blog.  But in the meantime, here is +Chane’s comment as reported by Gledhill:

Bishop Chane tells The Times in response:

“The archbishop’s thoughtful letter is helpful, and his defense of the Communion’s structures is persuasive. I am particularly grateful to hear him say that “the conviction of the uniqueness of Jesus Christ as Lord and God and the absolute imperative of evangelism are not in dispute in the common life of the Communion.” This slanderous bit of boilerplate has been repeated frequently by the opponents of the Episcopal Church, and it is heartening to know that the archbishop realizes that it false.

‘I am quite concerned however that Archbishop Williams seems not to understand that there are primates, bishops, and others in the Communion who are actively seeking to undermine his office. He says that we should not “input selfish or malicious motives to those who have offered pastoral oversight to congregations in other provinces.” But there is no doubt that extending such oversight is an effort to foment discord, and punish those who argue on behalf of the full inclusion of gays and lesbians in the life of our Communion. Peter Akinola is unwilling to articulate a simple condemnation of violence against homosexuals. What more does he have to do to persuade the archbishop that his views are dangerous, malicious and un-Christian?’

Wow, looks like we’ve got some serious competion in the GAFCON Roundup department.  While browsing through various Google Blog search hits just now, I came across this excellent list of links for GAFCON by Chris Watson Lee.  (He has pulled together almost all the transcripts and audio-visual materials from each day of the conference, along with most of the Aussie bloggers’ commentary about GAFCON day by day).  Check it out!

http://chriswatsonlee.wordpress.com/2008/06/30/gafcon-roundup/

The Archbishop of Canterbury needed no one to “undermine his office,” since he has done that quite handily all by himself.

Thanks to a tip:
CoE blogger “the Ugley Vicar” is liveblogging today’s big Post-GAFON meeting at All Souls Langham Place in London.  His reports on ++Orombi’s and ++Venables talks are inspiring and wonderful.

Here’s the link to his blog:  http://ugleyvicar.blogspot.com/
++Orombi’s Talk
++Venables’ Talk

Information on the program for today’s event in London is here:
http://chelmsfordanglicanmainstream.blogspot.com/2008/05/post-gafcon-meeting-in-london-note.html

+Tom Butler of Southwark has responded in an article in the Guardian - “Anglicanism’s militant tendency must be resisted” - link

And the Primate of Australia, +Phillip Aspinall, has given a few thoughts in an article in the Sydney Morning Herald - “Church leader urges rebels to rethink” - link

#5 Micky
From +Tom Butler

All I can say is that it was good, thoughtful, hardworking clergy from the evangelical tradition who, a couple of years ago, demanded that I took action against militant tendency evangelicals destructively planting congregations in their parishes

Hmmm….
http://timescolumns.typepad.com/gledhill/2006/06/coekin_wins_app.html

I’m starting to see why GAFCON is needed in England…

Some brief comments from the Rev. Grant LeMarquand of Trinity Seminary in Ambridge are posted today at Anglican Mainstream:
http://www.anglican-mainstream.net/2008/06/30/gafcon-reflections/

Bishop Chane in the Guardian (June 26)

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2008/jun/26/anglicanism.religion

Note:  I expect to update the main post with new links sometime around 6 or 7 p.m. Eastern tonight

—elfgirl

Cherie Wetzel (Anglicans United, GAFCON blogger, Diocese of Dallas), Report #7 from GAFCON, here:
http://www.anglicansunited.com/2008/07/report_no_7_only_a_true_fool.html

More GAFCON videos have been posted today at Anglican TV.
http://www.anglicantv.org/blog/index.cfm

GAFCON Jerusalem Declaration Video
GAFCON Behind the scenes briefing
GAFCON Interview with Archbishop Venables
Anglican Report with Archbishop Orombi

Inclusive Church Press Release, July 1
http://www.inclusivechurch2.net/GAFCON-and-the-Anglican-Communion-0b46aea

Anglican Church League (Sydney), President’s statement on GAFCON
http://acl.asn.au/acl-president-statement-on-gafcon/

Ok, all the links from the comments have now been added to the main post (see the July 1 update section)

Please continue to post links here in the comments with responses by bishops, clergy, other Anglican leaders or groups.  Thanks!

A few more links that will go in tomorrow’s roundup:

Kevin Kallsen of Anglican TV reflects on GAFCON

GAFCON Report by Canon Bill Gandenberger (Dio. San Joaquin)

Church of England GAFCON Briefing (one of the Melbourne GAFCON bloggers)

And yes, a few more links:

Bp. Kirk Smith of Arizona (See “A Final Thought”)
http://www.azdiocese.org/dfc/newsdetail_2/383

Church Times blog (July 1):  GAFCON Primates in London
http://www.churchtimes.co.uk/blog_post.asp?id=58985

There is a new petition for organizations in support of GAFCON:
http://www.gopetition.com/petitions/gafcon-jerusalem-statement.html
THIS IS THE PETITION FOR GROUPS AND ORGANIZATIONS, NOT INDIVIDUALS
The petition should be signed by a responsible person, such as the organization Secretary, giving the name of the organization and the date on which the motion shown in the petition was passed.

I guess that takes a while, so no signatures yet.

Please note, there is now a further petition, thanks to popular demand, for those outside England - that’ll be the rest of you then.

This is at
http://www.gopetition.co.uk/online/20254/signatures.html

John R

John, thank you so much for the news of the new petition, and also for your extraordinary blogging yesterday.  You made yourself a lot of fans in the Anglican blogosphere in the last 24 hours!

Some new links, July 2:
(note, I may not be able to take the time to update the main post tonight.  Some unexpected work commitments are going to keep me working very late.  It’s likely I’ll do the next update around 10:00 a.m. GMT / 6 a.m. Eastern tomorrow morning. —elfgirl)

Various new responses / commentary about GAFCON

Alister McGrath
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/faith/article4251765.ece

Chris Sugden
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2008/jul/02/religion.anglicanism

A summary of GAFCON designed for parish newsletters (Produced by the Chelmsford branch of Anglican Mainstream, note this is primarily geared to CoE parishes)

Note a plea from the elves:
Busyness is going to preclude us spending much time at all doing websearches the next few days.  We would GREATLY appreciate our readers doing the work of checking your parish newsletters or websites and diocesan websites, etc., and sending us any statements that are being circulated in your parish or diocese on GAFCON.  Thanks very much.

Our e-mail address:  .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)

CANA Bishop David Bena writes his clergy about GAFCON
http://transfigurations.blogspot.com/2008/07/cana-bp-david-bena-writes-to-his-clergy.html

New materials at Anglican TV:
GAFCON: The Post Gafcon London Meeting
GAFCON Archbishop Venables delivers closing sermon
GAFCON-Final-Press-ConferenceGAFCON: Final Press Conference

Other responses (all posted as main entries already below)
++Hiltz (Primate of Canada)
+Chane (Dio. Washington)
+Benn (Lewes, UK)

Forward in Faith:  Letter from Jerusalem

+John Pritchard, Oxford, UK:
http://www.oxford.anglican.org/page/6763/

+Brian Farran, Newcastle, Australia:
http://www.abc.net.au/rn/religionreport/stories/2008/2292207.htm

Elves—-
The current dateline reads “last updated: 3 July 2008, 12:30 GMT (8:30 p.m. Eastern) ” 

Are GMT and ET reversed?

No, just a typo because I was in a rush.  It should be 8:30 a.m. Eastern.

Whoa! +N.T. Wright of Durham is really not happy:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/7487805.stm

Yesterday Fulcrum published:

1. ‘Fulcrum Briefing Paper on GAFCON for Parochial Church Councils’

2. ‘Fulcrum Response to GAFCON’

Having read several articles that identify the GAFCON Anglicans as “FOCA” Anglicans (one writer admonishing against snickering), I wonder if a more felicitous acronym can’t be found.  What about referring to this group as the Confessing Anglicans’ Fellowship.  Its acronym could therefore be CAF Anglicans or, evoking the flavour of a major crop of the “global south”, Cafe Anglicans.

Another view of GAFCON:

A Report on the Global Anglican Futures Conference in Jerusalem 22-29 July, 2008 by the Rt. Rev. Paul C. Hewett, SSC Moderator of the Federation of Anglican Churches in the Americas Bishop of the  Diocese of the Holy Cross

Yesterday we published on Fulcrum two more articles on GAFCON:

1. Tom Wright, ‘Further Thoughts on GAFCON and Related Matters’.

2. Andrew Goddard, ‘The GAFCON Movement and The Anglican Communion’.