EFAC Australia
New Zealand’s Tragedy And The Problem Of Evil
- Written by: Peter Corney
On the 27th August 2020 the New Zealand’s High court brought down the judgement of imprisonment for life without release on Brenton Tarrant the Australian terrorist who attacked two Mosques in New Zealand on March 15th, 2019. He shot and killed 51 people and seriously injured 40 others with semi-automatic weapons. This terrible tragedy struck at the heart of the way New Zealanders think of themselves, as tolerant and inclusive people. Many of the victims were relatively recent immigrants to N.Z.
This event raises many questions for us: Is the perpetrator, a self-confessed member of the extreme ‘alt -right’ and a ‘white supremacist’, part of a growing movement that will further stress our democratic liberal societies and how do we counter that? Given what appears to have motivated this act how can we survive the pressures being created by the massive people movements around the world, the clash of cultures and the xenophobia they produce? Can we reign in the spread of these toxic ideological viruses on the ‘Web’ that seem to be the way many like Brenton Tarrant are radicalised?
Pivot Conference Talks August 2020
- Written by: Chris Appleby
Here are two of the talks from the Pivot conference held via Zoom in August 2020, one in text form the other as a video presenttion.
A New Mission Era Stephen Hale 5th August, 2020
Is this a significant turning point or just a road hump in mission history?
It has been suggested that there have been Four Eras of Christian History:
- 500 years up unto the fall of Rome (empire becomes Christian)
- 500 years up to the Great Schism (split between eastern and western church)
- 500 years up to the Great Reformation (recovery of Scripture and the gospel of grace, this Reformation was spread via the embrace of the printing press, so people had access to God’s word in their native tongue)
- 500 years up until today (Has been described era of Christendom – church spread via empire and mission to four corners of globe)
Anglican Future Conference 2018 Videos, etc.
- Written by: Chris Appleby
The second Anglican Future Conference was held in September 2018, in Melbourne
Here you'll find videos and various seminar presentations from the Conference. These will appear as they become available.
EFAC. GAFCON. What’s the Difference? Are Both Necessary?
- Written by: Chris Appleby
By Revd Richard Crocker, General Secretary, EFAC Global
EFAC (The Evangelical Fellowship in the Anglican Communion) had an exhibit stand at the recent GAFCON gathering in Jerusalem, a notable conference of Anglican leaders from around the world. Fifty countries were represented, including 316 Bishops and Archbishops, demonstrating the widespread impact of this biblically orthodox movement.
Many of the GAFCON conference delegates stopped by the EFAC exhibit and, as reported earlier on the Global EFAC website, the response was overwhelmingly positive. We are now in regular contact with Anglican leaders from 31 countries and many of those either have or want an EFAC chapter. They have no doubt that EFAC will benefit their churches. But, upon returning to the USA, we have been asked, “Why?” Why is EFAC needed, since we have GAFCON? Why was GAFCON needed, since we have EFAC? What’s the difference? Are EFAC and GAFCON competing? Or cooperating? Or does one make the other redundant? This article is meant to address these questions.
Read more: EFAC. GAFCON. What’s the Difference? Are Both Necessary?
The myth of the Evangelical takeover
- Written by: Craig Huxley
In this week’s edition of the Church Times, Angela Tilby published an article lamenting what is, in her view, an Evangelical takeover of the Church of England. She argues that it is no more apparent than in the Thy Kingdom Come initiative, spearheaded by the Archbishops of Canterbury and York.
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