[National Post] 24.11.07--For hundreds of years, Anglican missionaries poured out of the West to bring the word of God to those living in darkness.
But the tables have turned in recent years, as those who were evangelized are now doing the evangelizing.
In the U.S. and Canada, Anglicans who believe their national churches have abandoned the Scripture are reaching out to the Global South - the provinces of the Anglican Communion that represent most of the Third World - for spiritual comfort. The flashpoint has been same-sex blessings, but the deeper issue is one of theological conservatism versus liberalism.
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