http://www.livingchurch.org/publishertlc/viewarticle.asp?ID=3106
[The Living Church] 2 Mar 2007--She divided the spectrum of opinion into three general points of view: those who support, recognize, or at least accept the decisions of The Episcopal Church and “understand that those decisions are not sufficiently important to break communion;” others for whom “issues of poverty and disease and the issues represented by the Millennium Development Goals are far higher on their agendas;” and a group of primates “who are exceedingly exercised about our church’s actions.
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http://anglicancentrist.blogspot.com/2007/02/presiding-bishop-speaks-to-church.html
Presiding Bishop Speaks to the Church - fatherjones.com
As any good politician knows, you have won the election if you define your opponent before he has an opportunity to define himself. Much of what we will be hearing from Jefferts-Schori will be an effort to define those who are opposed to The Episcopal Church's liberal and revisionist leaders and their agenda for the denomination, to portray them in as negative light as possible, and to appeal to any prejudices Episcoplians may harbor toward those she describes as a "minority" in the denomination.
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