Anglican keys in Northern Virginia
December 16, 2006
GetReligion

Tomorrow is a giant news day in the Anglican wars, which is a global story that also has an American angle, a new York City angle, a Virginia angle and a Washington, D.C., suburban angle.
That’s some story.

I am referring, of course, to the fact that a circle of conservative, and in some cases historic, Anglican parishes have been voting all week on motions to withdraw from the Diocese of Virginia and, thus, the Episcopal Church, which is currently the Canterbury-recognized branch of Anglicanism here in the United States of America.

It is a giant, complex story and a very hard one for reporters to cover. There are all kinds of people — left, right and center — who would prefer that the entire drama play out behind closed doors.

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