Lambeth: A Crucial Moment for Anglicans

Conservative-Liberal Divide Roils Canterbury Gathering
By Daniel Burke
Religion News Service
Saturday, July 19, 2008

For centuries, Anglicans have prided themselves on finding the via media -- the middle way -- through theological and political thickets.

But the decades-long debate on homosexuality within the worldwide Anglican Communion seems stuck in a cul-de-sac, many say.

As Anglican bishops from around the world converge on Canterbury, England, for the three-week Lambeth Conference that began Wednesday, their 77 million-member communion again finds itself at a crossroads. the rest