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Article: Openness in the Episcopal Church
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- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- March 28, 2007
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THE EPISCOPAL Church's House of Bishops recent meeting in
Navasota, Texas, attracted much public attention as observers waited
to hear how the bishops would respond to challenges facing the
Anglican Communion over the full inclusion of gays and lesbians. The
debate also centered on the church's place within the larger
framework of the Anglican Communion. The House of Bishops is an
autonomous body within the larger Communion representing 15 sovereign
nations, the United States, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico,
The Virgin Islands, and Micronesia.
The Episcopal Church, in its deliberations, may come across to
many as overly fractious as it grapples with what kind of faith
community it ...