New York summit to bridge American divide
Date: Aug 25
By George Conger

IN A BID to defuse the American church’s civil war over homosexuality and the collateral damage it has been causing to the Anglican Communion, the Archbishop of Canterbury has invited the two sides to a summit. Leading US conservative and liberal bishops are to meet with ACC Secretary General Canon Kenneth Kearon next month for two days to initiate an ongoing dialogue on “some of the difficult issues facing the Church and to explore possible resolutions.”

Dr Williams has asked Virginia Bishop Peter Lee and Southwest Florida Bishop John Lipscomb to convene a gathering, moderated by Canon Kearon, in New York city in early September, and has invited from the left Presiding Bishop Frank Griswold and Presiding Bishop-elect Katharine Schori, and from the right Pittsburgh Bishop Robert Duncan and Bishop Jack Iker of Fort Worth to attend. In an August 18 statement to his diocese Bishop Iker stated, “in accordance with the Archbishop’s instructions,” each of the invitees are “to bring along another Bishop to share in these deliberations, and we have asked Bishop Ed Salmon of South Carolina and Bishop James Stanton of Dallas to join us.” the rest