Wider Ministry

Our Rector Charles Raven is closely involved with the reform and renewal of the global Anglican Communion which has been gathering pace since GAFCON (the Global Anglican Future Conference) was launched in Jerusalem in June 2008. Charles is a member of the GAFCON Theological Resource Group which acts as an international advisory and publication group for the GAFCON Primates. He is also a widely read commentator on the Anglican Communion and the Church of England as Director of SPREAD ( the Society for the Promotion of Reformed Evangelical Anglican Doctrine) and the author of ‘Shadow Gospel: Rowan Williams the Anglican Communion Crisis’ recently published by Latimer Trust. In what has been described as ‘an elegantly written theological thriller’  he shows that Dr Williams offers us a shadow gospel, a theology which has the form of orthodox faith, but not its real substance  and points to a positive alternative, that the Anglican Communion can recover its identity and coherence by gathering around the apostolic gospel as affirmed by the leaders of the spiritually dynamic Global South.