By Deb Price Ironically, we can feel the most spiritually alive when we're being battered by life's fiercest storms. For Gene Robinson, such storms have struck twice: First, when he could no longer deny his homosexuality and divorced his beloved wife. And now, as the Anglican Communion battles over the place of gay people, a struggle that intensified in 2003 when he was consecrated as the nation's first openly gay Episcopal bishop. In the inspiring "In the Eye of the Storm: Swept to the Center by God," the New Hampshire bishop tells what he's learned about himself as a ...

Editor’s note: Rowan Williams stands silently by while bishops from outside the US and Canada barge into our churches to  preach and preside. Yet he denies Bishop Gene a place in any English Anglican church. Seems a bit hypocritical to me . . . New Hampshire Bishop Gene Robinson has been told by Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams not to preach or preside at a eucharist while he is in England, according to reports. Robinson, the first openly gay priest to be elected bishop in the Anglican Communion, is visiting the U.K. to promote his new book, "In ...

Source: BBC News , Guardian (London) God is "very disappointed" with the failure of the Archbishop of Canterbury to confront the Anglican communion's outspoken critics of homosexuality, its first openly gay bishop says today. Gene Robinson, Bishop of New Hampshire, accuses Rowan Williams of failing to stand up to Christian traditionalists who denounce the bishop's life as an abomination of the Bible's teachings, and threaten the communion with schism for not shunning him. As the first bishop to speak of having a homosexual relationship, following his election in 2003, Robinson...(read more) ...

The Anglican Communion's first gay bishop has criticised the Archbishop of Canterbury for the controversy surrounding his appointment. American Bishop Gene Robinson said he believed that God would be "very disappointed" with Dr Rowan Williams for his unwillingness to confront negative statements made by some of Bishop Robinson's opponents within the Anglican church. The bishop claimed Dr Williams had failed to be even-handed and crack down enough on the language used by his opponents. He was elected Bishop of New Hampshire in 2003, becoming the Anglican Communion's first openly gay bishop. His appointment has caused great friction within the ...

Gay Anglican Bishop Gene Robinson continues to receive death threats ahead of the international Anglican Communion’s Lambeth Conference this summer. [AFP] ...