Thinking Anglicans

British newspapers Saturday

The Times has A. C. Grayling writing on Schisms, The reason of things;

The threatened schism within Anglicanism turns on a scriptural teaching which some Anglicans are not minded to defy, namely, the proscription of homosexuality in Leviticus xviii, 22. Here schism seems to be the right answer, for a church which does not accept gay people fully seems well worth schisming from.

The Telegraph has a leader Christian disunity which regrets the forthcoming consecration:

It will be as historic an event for the Anglican Communion as the hurling of anathemas between Michael Cerularius and Cardinal Humbert was for the universal Church in 1054, when Latins and Greeks broke into open schism.

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