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You’re the head of the worldwide Anglican Communion. One of your denominations in the US has gone ahead and consecrated a gay bishop, spakring worldwide controversy, without the full backing of the wider Church. Another of your denominations in Nigeria has protested so vehemently that it has helped the “conservative” (anti-gay) element in the other denomination to break away and form a new denomination. The once-a-decade conference for the whole Communion is next summer and will melt-down if both parties are present.

What do you do?

You refuse to invite either the legitimately consecreated gay bishop, Gene Robinson, nor the head of the new Convocation of Anglicans in North America, Martyn Minns.

Will the maneuveur appease the critics on either side, or will it please no one?

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Controversial Nigerian archbishop of the Anglican Communion, Peter Akinola, will visit the US next week. The move is intended to establish conservative members formerly of the Episcopalian churches as a new “Convocation of Anglicans in North America”, effectively an offshoot of the “traditionalist” (anti-gay) Nigerian church. As much as this move may consolidate the conservatives, it will only further distance the mainline Episcopal congregation from the Anglican communion.

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