What is the Anglican Crisis?
Over the past decade, the words “gay marriage” and “same sex blessing” have been at the forefront of liberal Anglican theological discussion in North America. And while media coverage and the North American Anglican liberal majority have attempted to make homosexuality the central issue of progressive Anglicanism, orthodox Anglicans have stepped forward to clarify that it is the authority of scripture, and faithfulness to Jesus, that is the heart of the issue. The “Anglican Crisis” is primarily a Western/North American crisis. The region represents the minority of the global Anglican Communion, but they have still had the power to tamper with ancient Anglican doctrine. When the Archbishop of Canterbury failed to respond to rampant defiant and disobedient practices of the West, foundation-shaking rumblings were sent across the global Communion. In a press release on Christmas 2007, orthodox bishops and clergy, representing 30 million of the 55 million Anglicans worldwide, released the s
