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The Anglican Church is going through a reformation
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Anglican Journal
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September 1, 2008
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KEITH KNIGHT
THE ANGLICAN COMMUNION is alive and vibrant.
It has survived another Lambeth Conference, a bit bruised, battered and fragmented. Bishops at Canterbury rallied around pertinent issues of social justice, poverty and the environment, and they reached the only conclusion they could on human sexuality: compromise.
That is what happens within a healthy family: members listen to each other, give a little, take a little, and reach a compromise. The result: both poles in the human sexuality debate are left frustrated and eager to battle another day, but it is the "middle road" - via media - that has won the day.
The Anglican Communion emerged as it always does after a Lambeth Conference ...