FCA

So I joined about 15oo others at the Fellowship of Confessing Anglicans conference in London yesterday. Of course it got all the negative press you'd expect, and the reporters all enjoyed misrepresenting what it was all about, but what did we expect?

I can't say I enjoyed the day - not only because Methodist Central Hall is such a dreadful venue, with its small seats, lack of leg room, soaring temperature, and poor sound - but more because such a day should not be necessary. If anglican church leaders had done what they swore to do at their ordination there wouldn't have been any need for the day. But as it is, we have faithful ministers and churches that have been locked out of their buildings, sued, and excommunicated.

The FCA is NOT a schismatic, divisive, extreme organisation, despite what you may have heard or read. It is a home for those who have remained true to their promises and true to the Anglican Communion. As Archbishop Peter Jensen said in his address, it's a unifying, not a dividing, organisation.

But that doesn't stop people complaining, lying, exaggerating and misrepresenting.

"Blessed are you when people insult you, persecute you and falsely say all kinds of evil against you because of me. Rejoice and be glad, because great is your reward in heaven, for in the same way they persecuted the prophets who were before you." (Matthew 5:11f).