Following the postponement of both the GAFCON Conference in Kigali (June 2020) and the Lambeth Conference (July 2020 to 2021) Canon Dr Vinay Samuel, the former General Secretary of EFAC, who attended the last three Lambeth Conferences, and was a founder of GAFCON, offers the following analysis.
‘On one side, a 500-year-old institution (the Church of England as it leads the Anglican Communion) is seeking to find itself in a world which has no place for the certainties of tradition. On the other side, the GAFCON Primates latch on to a memory, a tradition that does not change.
‘The two groups have different orientations to the future – hope and memory.
