Connecticut Is Front Line In Episcopalian War
January 7, 2007
Posted By : Kevin Kallsen

The Christmastime decision by eight Virginia congregations to bolt the Episcopal Church in favor of Anglican partners in Africa echoed loudly in the church's oldest diocese - the one in Connecticut that is shuddering from its own active revolt.

"We are living in a time of great chaos. Would we consider breaking out [like the Virginia churches]? Yes," said the Rev. Christopher Leighton, rector at St. Paul's Church in Darien, a leader of the rebel band known as the Connecticut Six.

"As people, we hate chaos. But God loves chaos. God creates out of chaos," he said.

Chaos is a good description of the turmoil in a church once called "the Republican Party at prayer" and still identified with the nation's power elite.

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