Religion Roundup
Anglicans Seen Floundering from Lack of Leadership
Associated Press
March 19, 2008
DESTIN, Fla. - A leader of former Episcopalians says the Anglican Communion is floundering because of a lack of leadership from Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams.
Bishop Martyn Minns, who heads the Convocation of Anglicans in North America, says the Communion's once-a-decade Lambeth Conference this summer won't include traditional Anglican provinces that are vibrant and growing. Leaders of those churches -- many of them in Africa -- are refusing to meet with bishops who supported consecration of the openly gay Episcopal Bishop V. Gene Robinson of New Hampshire.
Minns says between 200 and 300 conservative Anglican bishops will hold a separate meeting.
But he says the Anglican Communion isn't breaking up so much as it's re-forming around churches that adhere to Biblical authority and Christian tradition. More liberal churches are losing members, he says, because they have "nothing that is solid to stand on."
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