The third Global Anglican Future Conference (GAFCON) met in Jerusalem this past week. It was the largest gathering of Anglicans since 1963’s Pan Anglican Congress in Toronto, with ‘some 1,966 [representatives coming] from 52 countries,’ including 472 from Nigeria, 367 from the United States, 232 from Uganda, 218 from Australia, and 204 from the United Kingdom. [1] GAFCON’s 1 st conference in 2008, just ten years ago, was the result of and response to the cultural distortion of Christianity in Western nations that came to a focus when Western Anglican provinces, along with other mainline denominations, began to reject the Church’s 2,000 year old, and Biblical, teaching on homosexuality. GAFCON took a decidedly orthodox view on the issue of sexuality and the authority of Scripture. The third GAFCON conference included 316 bishops, 669 other clergy, and 965 laity. [2] The number of Anglicans worldwide is estimated at over 80 million, by far the largest body of Protestant Christia