Jack Miles, author of God: A Biography writes:
Numerically, the 2.3 million Episcopalians do not loom large among 77 million Anglicans worldwide. Symbolically, however, given the global importance of the United States, the departure of the Americans will leave the archbishop exposed as a quasi-colonial, quasi-papal figurehead heading a church made up, anachronistically, of Britain and her mostly African and Asian former colonies. This will be an awkward state of affairs, and portends further fissures.
There is also a quintessentially 21st-century implication to this now quite-likely split. A solid majority of American Episcopalians supports their church’s stance on homosexuality and gay marriage. A minority disagrees, and some of these members have even sought to pull their congregations out of the Episcopal Church and affiliate them with one of the Anglican churches in Africa that have been most vehemently opposed to the Episcopalians’ decisions on homosexuality.
Along the same lines, any British or Canadian or Australian congregation that wished to disaffiliate from local forms of Anglicanism might well affiliate with the Episcopal Church. In fact, a few have already signaled their readiness.
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