LA Times: Episcopal leader seeks to mend church rift
By Rebecca Trounson, Los Angeles Times Staff Writer
November 19, 2007

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Nonetheless, on Saturday, representatives from Fort Worth approved constitutional amendments that are the first steps toward that departure. The diocese joined others in San Joaquin and Pittsburgh in granting the preliminary approval."She's playing hardball, and that's not going down very well, in this country or in the communion," said the Rev. Canon Kendall Harmon, a leading church traditionalist from South Carolina who runs a popular Episcopal blog. "She's apparently opted for a power strategy and a public legal strategy, and that's a great disappointment."

But Jefferts Schori explains her strategy in different terms.

In her Nov. 9 meeting with about 100 leaders of the El Camino Real Diocese, she said she believed strongly in reaching out and listening to Episcopalians frustrated by what they see as the church's too-liberal direction. full story