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July 17, 2009: Episcopal Convention Report
After decades of debate and division, the US Episcopal Church this week said overwhelmingly that gays and lesbians are eligible to become bishops or serve in any other ordained ministry of the church.
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July 10, 2009: Mainline Protestants and Same-Sex Marriage
Episcopalians will debate a proposal that would allow churches to conduct same-sex weddings in the six states that have legalized gay marriage. Most mainline denominations don't officially allow same-sex weddings. But the changing legal situation is adding new pressure.
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August 8, 2008: Lambeth Conference Wrap Up
The presiding bishop of the U.S. Episcopal Church says the worldwide Anglican Communion is holding together despite deep divisions over homosexuality interpretation of Scripture.
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August 1, 2008: Bishop Tom Shaw
Read more of Kim Lawton's interview at the Lambeth Conference in Canterbury with Bishop Tom Shaw of Massachusetts.
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August 1, 2008: Bishop Eugene Sutton
Read more of Kim Lawton's interview at the Lambeth Conference in Canterbury with Episcopal Bishop Eugene Sutton of Maryland.
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August 1, 2008: Bishop Gene Robinson
Read more of Kim Lawton's interview at the Lambeth Conference with Episcopal Bishop Gene Robinson of New Hampshire.
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August 1, 2008: Bishop Mark Lawrence
Read more of Kim Lawton's interview in Canterbury at the Lambeth Conference with Episcopal Bishop Mark Lawrence of South Carolina.
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August 1, 2008: Lambeth Report
Same-sex unions, as well as the consecration of gay bishops, are among the most contentious issues facing the worldwide Anglican Communion at the Lambeth Conference in England this week.
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July 18, 2008: Lambeth Preview
Six-hundred-and-fifty bishops of the worldwide Anglican Communion assembled in Canterbury, England this week for the Lambeth Conference, a three-week-long meeting that's held just once every decade.
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July 18, 2008: The New Anglicanism?
Read an excerpt from Anglican Communion in Crisis: How Episcopal Dissidents and Their African Allies Are Reshaping Anglicanism, by Miranda K. Hassett.
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