Commentary
Recently, a gathering of Anglicans from the Pacific Region began their Conference in Canberra by announcing the creation of a new Anglican Diocese of the Southern Cross with former Archbishop of Sydney Glenn Davies as bishop.
The split comes after events at the Anglican Church’s General Synod in May, where the majority of Australia’s bishops refused to acknowledge the biblical teaching that Christian marriage is a union between a man and a woman.
Davies, who was commissioned to lead the fledgling movement, said the new diocese would “stay true to the Bible’s teachings on sexuality” and reject the “revisionist theology” propagated by progressive archbishops in Adelaide, Melbourne, Brisbane, and Perth….