Key Resolutions of the 2018 General Convention in Austin

A068 Plan for the Revision of the Book of Common Prayer – despite its title, this actually did not initiate a comprehensive revision but instead provides for deeper engagement with the existing texts but also provides for development of more alternative…..

B012 Marriage Rites for the Whole Church, extends the authorization for “continued trial use” of the liturgies for same-sex unions and mandates that where a bishop does not approve of such liturgies that bishop another bishop shall be invited to provide pastoral support for them….

A227 Communion Across Difference, establishes a Task Force of an equal number of persons who accept and reject the possibility of a same-sex couple entering into a marriage and will be tasked with finding “a lasting path forward for mutual flourishing” of those with these differing views….

regarding provision for same-sex liturgies

by Communion Partners

and Province IX Bishops

These addressed serious reservations felt about Resolution B 012 in terms of ecclesiology, impact on the wider global Anglican Communion and unilateral deviation from Biblical norms and traditional teaching.

A Sermon on

Eucharist, Life and Logos

in St John’s Gospel