A call for unity
South African archbishop says the Anglican Communion -- and the Episcopal Church -- must move beyond talk of schism and embrace diversity
By DANIEL BURKE
Religion News Service

WASHINGTON -- Njongonkulu Ndungane, the Anglican archbishop of Cape Town, South Africa, has seen divisive policies tear a society apart.

But this fourth-generation Anglican cleric, who was jailed for three years under apartheid in South Africa, is determined not to let the same thing happen to his increasingly fractious Anglican Communion.

Bitter divisions over the role of homosexuals in Anglican life have the 77 million-member Anglican Communion and its U.S. branch, the Episcopal Church, teetering on the edge of schism. The Episcopal Church's election of the world's first female primate in June heightened tensions between church conservatives and liberals. the rest