WHEN a country's Episcopalian leaders gather to discuss the proposed appointment of their first openly homosexual bishop, you would not expect things suddenly to get even more rancorous.
He has a lot of supporters not least in America, where 35 conservative Episcopalian churches have defected to Nigeria's outfit.
This being Easter Sunday, he said, he would "try to be more subdued, what some may consider more Episcopalian" (he was raised Baptist).
Old Swedes Church in Wilmington was built in 1698 for a Swedish Lutheran congregation, but it is now Episcopalian.
James Monroe, a close friend of Paine, remained officially an Episcopalian but may have stood closer to non-Christian Deism than to Christian Deism.
And contributing to the pervasive sense of more-than-faint perviness is Steve Pemberton's sublime pronouncer-in-chief, who is there to deliver undermining introductions and to read out deadpan, deeply unhelpful sentences in which the usage of the word-to-be-spelt is demonstrated (eg "Billy, put down that phylactery. We're Episcopalian").
Under the circumstances, what is surprising is the cordiality that has always existed between Falwell and the conservative, largely Episcopalian business establishment of Lynchburg.
(Eck, who is a professor of comparative religion, has written several books on Hinduism and religious pluralism in America Austinn is an Episcopalian priest at Harvard's Memorial Church).
Her imperialism extended even to Williams' grave, marked — improbably, since he was an Episcopalian — by a Russian Orthodox cross.
In America, it is easier to find just the niche you want: Polish or Vietnamese, metropolitan or exurban, gay or straight, Episcopalian or Muslim, or any combination of the above.You have a choice of weather and landscape, from snowy Alaska to baking Texas, from the mountains of Colorado to the forests of Maine.
I am glad to see that he is neither a Roman Catholic (my profession) nor an Episcopalian (my wife's).I find it easy to believe, as Bishop Banda suggests, that gay rights go against Zambia's traditional values.
