The Message to the people of South Africa — 40 years

In September it will be 40 years since the “Message to the people of South Africa” was published.
The “Message” was a comprehensive rejection of the apartheid policy of the South African government of the time on theological grounds.
While Christian groups had criticised apartheid previously, most of the earlier criticisms had not explicitly rejected the principles [...]

New Anglican Archbishop of Cape Town

The new Anglican Archbishop of Cape Town, Thabo Makhoba, is the youngest ever to hold that office. At his enthronement he called for a healing of divisions in society, yet he faces even more serious divisions in the church.

clipped from www.thetimes.co.za

The new Archbishop of Cape Town, Thabo Makgoba, called for fresh efforts [...]

Backtracking on secularisation

Father David MacGregor has linked together a number of reports in his Contact Online blog about the Archbishop of Canterbury’s views on introducing Sharia law into Britain, which has set a herd of cats among the pigeons. Here’s an example of what people have been saying Contact Online Weblog: Archbishop backtracks amid calls to resign
The [...]

A conspiracy of silence - South African church history

The charismatic renewal movement in South Africa — don’t talk about it!
A little over a year ago I read Charles Villa-Vicencio’s Trapped in apartheid, which had been published 25 years previously, at the height of the struggle against apartheid. Villa-Vicencio’s thesis was that “the English-speaking churches” were trapped in apartheid, and so could not effectively [...]

Ethiopian Orthodox Church

Diliza Valisa (Fr Wolde Selassie) came to see us on Saturday, accompanied by Pascal Schmitz and Wolde Emmanuel Solontsi Sindiso. He gave me various documents and pictures relating to the history of the Ethiopian Orthodox Church of South Africa. He explained how they had come to make contact with the Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church after [...]

Jurisdictionalism hits Anglicans in USA

Anglicanism in the USA seems to be on its way to becoming a tangled mess of separate jurisdictions even more complicated than the jurisdictional mess in the Orthodox Church there. Some US Episcopalians have linked to Anglican dioceses in various parts of Africa, and now South America has jumped in.For the last 150 years [...]