The Episcopal Church in the USA (ECUSA) opened its triennial General Convention in Columbus OH on Saturday.

In a well-balanced review of the opening of the GC, Steve Levin summarized the runup to this year's meeting. They include the election of V. Gene Robinson to be Bishop of New Hampshire, the reaction to his election, and the subsequent creation of a panel of clerics in the Church of England to prepare what is now know as the Windsor Report that attempted to forge a via media between the arch-conservatives in the conservative provinces and the ECUSA.
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