It is always exciting to be able to share in the journey of the 26 AFFIRM Parishes across the country...

This month the Team at AFFIRM are thrilled to extend our congratulations to Rev Glenn Paddison, Vicar of St Elizabeth's Anglican Parish of Clendon, in recently gaining a Master's in Theology!

Capping Photo to follow...

Congratulations also to three new AFFIRM Associate Members:

It is often stated that younger practicing Christians are more in favour of same-sex marriage than older practicing Christians. While this is true, recent research carried out by Barna Research shows that, on this issue, younger practicing Christians are more closely aligned with older practicing Christians than they are with members of their own age group. In fact the gap between them and people of their own age on this issue is wider than the gap between older practicing Christians and those of this older age group.

May 8, 2015 by Philip Jenkins 

I have been writing about mainstream and fringe scholarship, and defending the sometimes unpopular idea of mainstream orthodoxy, or the scholarly consensus.

Blogging on any religious topic invites wacky comments and responses. As one example of many, I had a commenter not long ago who asserted that most of what Christians believed about their origins was utterly wrong.

The Judicial Committee Decision with respect to the Application concerning Clause 4 of Motion 30 of the General Synod 2014

In the latest issue of Latimer Focus, the magazine of the Latimer Fellowship (an Affiliate of AFFIRM), Michael Hewit (former Executive Officer of AFFIRM) has wriiten an article about the recent past and current experience of what was the West Hamilton Parish. The article can be found at http://www.latimer.org.nz/wp-content/uploads/Issue-36-West-Hamilton-pari....

Barna Reasearch, March 3, 2015—Like it or not—and there are plenty of reasons not to—consumer culture shapes what people expect of church and how some churches approach ministry.

[From Barna Update, February 18, 2015]

You've probably heard it said that people don't quit jobs, they quit bosses. It's a common leadership maxim—often issued as a word of warning to those stepping into leadership: a bad boss can ruin even the best of jobs. But is the opposite also true? Can a good boss lead to less turnover? And what are the qualities that employees think make for a good leader—or a bad one?