News re: split of VA churches

The Age: Conservative moves stir Anglican troubles

LA Times: Blessed be the lawyers

THE DECISION BY two Virginia congregations to leave the Episcopal Church of the United States and submit to the leadership of a Nigerian archbishop is rooted in a dispute about God's will. But the parting of theological ways inevitably involves things of this world.

The Virginia congregations voted not only to change their institutional allegiance but also to hold on to church property. The latter decision moved the bishop of Virginia to issue a statement asserting the larger church's "canonical and legal rights over these properties."

Agape Press: Stage Set for Costly Legal Property Fight in Episcopal Church USA

BBC: Profile: Archbishop Peter Akinola

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