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Article: The Gay Bishop at the Center of the Anglican Storm.(Gene Robinson)(Interview)
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- U.S. News & World Report
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- July 30, 2008
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Byline: Jay Tolson
The Rt. Rev. Gene Robinson on tensions in Anglican Communion and his own controversial ministry
As the Lambeth Conference, the once-every-decade meeting of the bishops of the Anglican Communion in Canterbury, England, enters its final days, the great question remains whether the 77 million-member global federation will be able to avoid a schism.
Although he was pointedly not invited to the conference, the Rt. Rev. Gene Robinson has been a figure at the center of the storm ever since the openly gay clergyman was consecrated as the bishop of the Diocese of New Hampshire in 2003. Conservatives point to him as proof that liberal Anglicans and ...