Why GAFCON?

http://www.virtueonline.org/portal/modules/news/article.php?storyid=7756

[Virtue Online] 21 Feb 2008--Criticisms have been directed against GAFCON (Global Anglican Futures Conference, announced by a mainly Global South gathering for Jerusalem this June), many of them by those considered to be conservatives. And these criticisms are not to be ignored. But for the Global South and their allies, no real alternative to GAFCON is evident, given two factors. The first is the evasiveness of the House of Bishops (HOB) of The Episcopal Church (TEC) in responding to the communiqué of the Primates' Meeting of February 2007.

The second, no less compelling, is Canterbury's undercutting of the Primates' Meeting and of the Primates themselves, apparently to avoid rejection of the HOB response. By way of giving grounds for this view, this article traces the sequence of events giving rise to GAFCON.