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Article: The impact of the sexuality controversy on mission: the case of the Episcopal Church in the Anglican Communion.
- Article from:
- International Bulletin of Missionary Research
- Article date:
- January 1, 2009
- Author:
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As controversy about the place of homosexuality in Christian life and church polity strains the stability and unity of churches in the United States and around the world, the turmoil is affecting churches' global mission work as well. Since mission typically takes place through webs of relationship within churches and with companions in other parts of the world, the relational stresses brought by the sexuality issue have prompted shifts in mission support, organization, and, sometimes, the very possibility of mission companionship continuing in particular places.
As the world's third largest Christian communion--after the Roman Catholic and the Orthodox--the ...