Fort Worth Episcopal bishop weighs in on the church's split

By DARREN BARBEE
Fri, Dec. 05, 2008

Resolute and unbending in his beliefs, Bishop Jack Iker, leader of the Fort Worth Episcopal Diocese, said he and three other bishops could take no more after four years of what he called revisionist theology.

In an interview Thursday, Iker discussed the formation of the new Anglican Church in North America, a rival denomination to the U.S. Episcopal Church. He also touched on the ramifications for worshippers and likely fights over property for those local churches that remain in the Episcopal Church.

The theologically conservative Fort Worth Diocese voted overwhelmingly last month to dissociate from the Episcopal Church and to associate temporarily with a more orthodox Anglican group. the rest