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Ever since the Episcopal Church, the U.S. branch of the worldwide Anglican Communion, accepted an openly gay bishop in 2003, there have been rumbles of a fracture in the 77-million-member denomination over ...

Episcopalians in Atlanta and around the country are anxiously watching England this week.

The Most Rev. Dr. Katharine Jefferts Schori, presiding bishop of the Episcopal Church, plans to be here next June to meet with members of the Diocese of Tennessee and celebrate the 150th anniversary of St.

Along with eliminating homosexuality as a bar to ordination as deacon elder or minister, representatives to the recent General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church U.S.A. also agreed to move forward with a ...

The recently deposed and now former Episcopal Bishop of San Joaquin. John-David Schofield will not attend the Lambeth Conference. more

A news release issued by the Anglican Church in Uganda claims that the "Archbishop of Canterbury's office has confirmed that Christopher Ssenyonjo, the second Bishop of West Buganda Diocese, has not been ...

Traditionalists threatened to quit the Church of England over female bishops, saying that ``actions always have consequences,'' after the church's parliament voted yesterday to go ahead with consecration of ...

A Valley church celebrates 100 years of service to the area. But as Dennis Biviano explains..St. Augustine Episcopal Church is making history in more ways than you may think.

Episcopal Presiding Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori was installed as head of the U.S. church less than two years ago, inheriting a mess not of her own making.

An Anglican bishop has said he is prepared to convert to Roman Catholicism after the General Synod voted to allow women bishops. The traditionalist Bishop of Ebbsfleet has asked the Pope, as well as Catholic leaders in England and Wales, to help him and his parishes defect to Rome. The Right Reverend Andrew Burnham said objectors within the Church of England were feeling "shipwrecked". He said: "We are floating in the water looking for someone to rescue us." A Church of England group is drawing up a code of practice to reassure critics after the Synod vote earlier this week. more

As more than 650 Anglican Communion bishops travel to southeast England for the once-a-decade conference, Episcopal Life Online will offer daily written coverage, video reports and image galleries to emphasize ...

A worldwide gathering will include the Episcopal bishop from northeastern Wisconsin.

The Episcopal Church of the Epiphany is opening a school this fall for pre-K, kindergarten, first-, fifth- and sixth-graders. Epiphany Episcopal School will use the building on Jefferson Street that the church ...

To be launched on July 8, episcopalchurch.org highlights the four Mission Centers that now encapsulates the staff of the Episcopal Church Center as they continue to achieve new levels of service and ...

The Church of England's ruling body voted its support Monday for women to become bishops, a move that risks further division because it lacked accommodation for traditionalists opposed to the idea.

The decision after hours of debate among leaders of the British church came even as the Anglican church worldwide wrestles with the more contentious issues of a gay clergy and the blessing of same-sex marriages.

One bishop broke down in tears at the meeting of senior British church leaders in York, in northern England, as he described his distress at the church's lack of willingness to accommodate the traditionalists.

Ed Note: Since this won't take effect until 2014 ("at the earliest") there really is plenty of time for folks to write up a "code of conduct"that makes the old boy's network happy without demeaning women. BTW: Isn't it odd that so many these good old boys who can't tolerate gays feel the same way about women?

The Church of England was thrown into turmoil last night over the issue of women bishops, as it rejected proposals that would have accommodated clergy strongly opposed to the historic change. In an emotional, sometimes bitter debate lasting more than seven hours, the General Synod voted against introducing separate structures and "superbishops", to oversee parishes opposed to women bishops, because they were seen as amounting to institutionalised discrimination. Instead, the 468 members narrowly agreed to the idea of introducing a national statutory code of practice, throwing out all compromises that would have appeased opponents of women bishops. A code of practice has yet to be fully explored, but will not satisfy the demands of traditionalists and conservative evangelicals, who had formed an alliance to block consideration of any such code.

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A new book just published leads the fight against the ‘conservative’ attempt to take over the Church of England and the Anglican Communion.

Liberal Faith in a Divided Church by Jonathan Clatworthy, General Secretary of the Modern Churchpeople’s Union, argues that the Church has traditionally been tolerant and inclusive, willing to embrace differences of opinion and allow them to be debated without threats of schism.

At this time of increasing controversy between liberals and conservatives in the western churches, and especially in view of the July 2008 Lambeth Conference, this book is a highly topical contribution to the case for Christian liberalism and is certain to stir controversy.

While observing the current disputes, especially over women and homosexuality, it is a work of scholarship which examines why Christians understand their faith in such radically different ways, and proposes a way forward which would enable them to worship together and respect diversity of opinion.

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LGBT Anglicans and their allies can use a new website - Letters to Lambeth - to join in the Lambeth Listening Process.

Launched by Oasis California, the LGBT Ministry of the Episcopal Diocese of California, the project has been endorsed by these bishop: The Rt. Rev. Marc Andrus of the Diocese of California, the Rt. Rev. John Chane, Rt. Rev Gregory H. Rickel, Diocese of Olympia; the Rt. Rev. George Wayne Smith of the Diocese of Missouri, the Rt. Rev. S. Todd Ousley of the Diocese of Eastern Michigan and the Rt. Rev. Otis Walker of the Diocese of Long Island.

From the Windsor Report forward we have heard calls for what is called “The Listening Process,“ meaning a deep, Communion-wide attentiveness to the lives of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgendered (LGBT) people.

We believe belief that forwarding the listening process is a work that needs to be engaged by all of us who think it would be valuable, rather than for us to wait for some entity to take up the work for us.

You can use the Letters to Lambeth site to send either a public or a private letter.

The archbishop of York on Saturday rebuked some Anglican traditionalists for what he calls ungracious behavior toward Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams.

The first openly gay bishop of the Episcopal Church on Tuesday compared the struggle of gays and lesbians to the civil rights movement of the 1960s.