Sharing Bishop Duncan’s Pain
Dr. Peter Toon+

I believe, with the greatest of heartbreak and sadness, that the day has arrived where those who have chosen the Episcopal Church because of its catholic and evangelical reliability, and those who have chosen the Episcopal Church for its revolutionary character, can no longer be held together. For which Episcopal Church will the Committee, and then this Convention, decide? The future in Communion rests only with the former of the two. It cannot be both ways into the future.

Not a few people of varied persuasions believe that the Episcopal Church stands on the brink of being unable to find a way to achieve a common mind on how to respond to the requirements of The Windsor Report. And, thus, not a few also share the pain expressed by the Bishop.

Let us examine the position of each side.

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