The Anglican time bomb

At immediate issue for conservatives is the widening acceptance of gay sex by leaders of Anglicanism in the West | Edward E. Plowman

A time bomb is relentlessly clicking away in the worldwide Anglican Communion. If and when it explodes, gone from the see of Canterbury will be the majority of the estimated nearly 80 million members in 44 national and regional churches birthed by the Church of England.

The predominantly theologically liberal 2.3-million-member Episcopal Church in the United States (ECUSA) and the 800,000-adherent Anglican Church of Canada are the two North American branches of the communion. ECUSA stands to lose many of its largest churches; they are led by conservatives. Even the mother Church of England will shrink. Evangelicals and other conservatives lead many of its most thriving congregations. On paper, the Church of England has 26 million adherents, but only a fraction are in the pews on Sundays.

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