[Living Church by G. Jeffrey MacDonald] The Anglican Communion’s first mission theologian got an early jump during General Convention on his task of identifying “new Augustines” in the Global South.

The Rt. Rev. Graham Kings, formerly Bishop of Sherborne, began in his role as mission theologian in the Anglican Communion on July 15. The new seven-year post is supported by a partnership among Durham University, Church Mission Society, and the Archbishop of Canterbury.

But even before Bishop Kings began his job in England, he was in the United States outlining his vision for the role and providing a glimpse of what is to come. That meant nudging the primates of Brazil, South Korea, and Pakistan to reflect theologically at a luncheon panel sponsored by Virginia Theological Seminary’s Center for Anglican Communion Studies and the Compass Rose Society.

As the panel tackled the sweeping topic of God’s mission and the Anglican Communion’s future, Kings invoked the Church as depicted in Acts, especially the arrival of Gentiles into what had been a Jewish community of believers.

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