David Virtue follows up on TIME Magazine's selection of "The Slow-Motion Episcopal/Anglican Train Wreck" as No. 5 of its 10 biggest religion stories of the year. ...The article said the Episcopal Bishops' meeting in New Orleans failed to stem either the ongoing defection of conservatives over the church's position on homosexuals, or the likelihood of a worldwide Anglican split over the same issue.
The story was voted 5th following Pope Benedict XVI lifting the ban requiring a bishop's permission to celebrate mass in old-school Latin, but ahead of a story about Green Evangelicals, a group concerned about global warming, along with poverty and torture, becoming hot issues to a maturing conservative Christian movement.
By any estimate, it was a bad year for The Episcopal Church (TEC). Growing talk of schism in the wider Anglican Communion only heightened the tensions that continued throughout the year...
For the rest of this year in review as it pertains to the Anglican "train wreck", read Virtue's article in its entirety.
