Welcome

Welcome to SPREAD. The Society is dedicated to the preservation and propagation of the reformed Christian faith as classically expressed in the Anglican Formularies, the Thirty-nine Articles, the 1662 Book of Common Prayer and the Ordinal.

Taking encouragement from the GAFCON movement's Jerusalem Statement and Declaration of June 2008, which reaffirmed the authoritative role of the historic formularies for Anglicanism today, SPREAD seeks to serve the radical realignment of the Anglican Communion which is now emerging

Events between the 1998 and 2008 Lambeth Conferences demonstrate decisively that the Communion's present "instruments of unity", including the See of Canterbury itself, are no longer fit for purpose when confronted with deep theological confusion in which evil is held out as good and good as evil. A merely institutional unity not firmly rooted in the revealed truths of God's Word written is not only counterfeit but also toxic, exposing the whole Communion to the false teaching and immorality absorbed by the Western Churches. SPREAD seeks to guard against this danger and to encourage the emergence of new Anglican structures able to support a coherent and confident proclamation of the gospel around the globe.

Please share with us in this historic task.

Charles Raven, Director

The Rt Rev John K Rucyahana writes...

I am very pleased to commend the work of SPREAD. My country has experienced a powerful visitation of the Holy Spirit as the seat of the East African revival in the 1930's, but some sixty years later it also experienced the visitation of the devil in the genocide of 1994. Read Full Article

Tracker - Understanding the times.

SPREAD's regular commentary following the news and views within the Anglican Communion....'Be alert...' Acts 20:31
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'Rwandan Archbishop calls for a new Anglican Ecumenical Council'

Speaking at the Fourth Global South to South Encounter in Singapore, Archbishop Emmanuel Kolini made a radical call for new Anglican Communion structures, saying 'We need a new way forward. We are no longer in communion with Rowan (Williams) or TEC or Canada. After all the biblical reflections we are still in a state of crisis, nothing has been resolved over the years' Watch the Archbishop's address here

If we didn't leave, what did we accomplish at GAFCON?

Although many felt relief that GAFCON at Jerusalem did not talk in terms of leaving the Anglican Communion, Bishop John Rodgers shows that the implications of the Jerusalem Statement and Declaration actually represent an even more radical option.Read Full Article

"Being Faithful: The Shape of Historic Anglicanism Today: A Commentary on the Jerusalem Declaration."

'Being Faithful' is an exposition of the historic GAFCON Jerusalem Declaration set alongside the theological resource papers drafted for the 2008 meeting in Jerusalem, which were previously published as The Way, the Truth and the Life. A vital resource in the battle to rescue the Anglican Communion from its current confusion and disorder. Order from Latimer Trust