Source: BBC News , Telegraph (London) , Ekklesia Conservative Anglican leaders have opened talks in Jerusalem on the future of the Church by criticizing its leader, the Archbishop of Canterbury, BBC News reports. The Archbishops of Nigeria and Uganda attacked his failure to discipline the US Episcopal Church for consecrating an openly gay bishop in 2003. At a press conference Sunday, the two archbishops also attempted to downplay or even justify anti-gay violence in their countries. About 300 bishops are meeting to discuss the future of the worldwide Anglican Communion, amid fears of a split. Many...(read more) ...

At first glance this seems like a simple story, about a woman who tells a secret she believed was at least partly hers to tell. But stories about secrets are rarely ever simple. The woman is Honor Moore and the secret she tells, in her recently published memoir, "The Bishop's Daughter," is about her father, the late Episcopal Bishop Paul Moore Jr., who rose through the ranks of the Episcopal Church to the powerful position of bishop of New York. Paul Moore was a giant of a man in many respects — a leader in the civil ...