Diane Knippers was president of the Institute on Religion and Democracy, a conservative Christian advocacy organization focused on mainline Protestant churches. She contributed to The Weekly Standard between 1998 and 2003, writing about internal conflicts within the Anglican Communion, particularly over issues of sexuality and church governance. Knippers passed away in 2005.
KARL MARX had a good line about Episcopalians. In a preface to Volume 1 of "Das Kapital," he wrote that the "English Established Church"--of which the Episcopal Church is an American offshoot--would "more readily pardon an attack on 38 of its 39 articles than on 1/39 of its income." Marx was…
THE LATEST SKIRMISH in the struggle for the soul of the Episcopal Church in the United States is over the consecration on January 29 of two American priests as bishops without dioceses to serve as missionaries to the United States. Odder still, the two were consecrated at St. Andrew's Cathedral in…
Bill Clinton isn't the only one who's apologized (or feigned an apology) for sex this summer. Anglican bishops formed their own mea culpa choir at the Lambeth Conference in Canterbury, England in July and August. Most of their regret was sexrelated.