GAFCON. Dioceses formed in New Zealand and Australia offer hope for faithful Anglicans down under. They will grow and thrive in the coming years and are growing against all the odds. There are slivers of hope for Ireland, Wales, Scotland and, in time, England even as their national churches decline. Other GAFCON initiatives include Caminemos Juntos (Let's Walk Together), an Anglican Latino network and church planting movement in South, Central, and North America, begun in 2010.

Nones, (people with no religion) are growing faster and emptying pews of the Church of Jesus Christ in all its myriad forms. Evangelicals and Roman Catholics are feeling the heat as they watch the number of unbelievers shoot past them. Secularization, bad theology, catechetical failure, pansexuality, isolation, loneliness and the irrelevance of church life is emptying churches faster than the Titanic sinking. New reports say that our minds and bodies will pay the price.

It is a charge that has no basis in fact and will only cause continued harm to Christians in the Middle East who experience persecution not from extremist fringe Jewish groups but from Arab Islamists who want nothing more than to rid the Middle East of any Christian presence.

The ad featured GAFCON Chairman and ACNA Archbishop Foley Beach and international ACNA Bishop William Atwood supporting the occasion as speakers at the conference.

On hearing the news, Archbishop Beach said the invitation was put out without any consultation with the parties listed and I don't know of any who will be there -- if this event is really happening. We were invited but declined to attend.