Day: August 23, 2010

No one would confuse the Rev. Canon Grace Kaiso, General Secreatry of the Council of Anglican Provinces in Africa, with a supporter of LGBT Christians. Yet his comments in this story about his organization’s upcoming meeting are encouraging in their way.

To observe, for instance, what passes for liturgy at many denominational events of the Episcopal Church, such as the putative consecration service for the new Bishops Suffragan of Los Angeles, is to understand the degree to which the Episcopal Church makes allowance, indeed makes deliberate provision, for a practice of religion which of its very nature “separates” its practitioners doctrinally from the Body of Christ.

Though the media makes much of antagonism between The Episcopal Church and Anglicans in Africa, the reality is far more nuanced, as the participation of a number of Episcopalians in this week’s conference of African bishops makes clear.