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    The six-page letter, "The Challenge and Hope of Being an Anglican Today," was sent yesterday to the archbishops who oversee the world's 38 Anglican provinces in response to last week's Episcopal General Convention in Columbus, Ohio.     Archbishop Rowan Williams said the 70-million-member Anglican Communion may require a "covenant" defining theological orthodoxy on a wide range of matters, including homosexuality.     Local parishes that do not agree to it may be relegated to "associate" status, he said.     "We could arrive at a situation where there were 'constituent' churches in covenant in the Anglican Communion and other 'churches in association,' which were still...

Here's another indication that an Anglican split will be the best thing that could possibly happen to conservative Anglicanism. Sam Pascoe, rector of Grace Anglican Church of Orange Park, Florida, writes his parish: As I write, I am in Birmingham, Alabama, at the Anglican Mission in America Winter Conference. I am here with Janie Simpson (our Senior Warden), Travis Greenman and Rob Sanders (Associates), Karen Allen (our Children’s Ministry Coordinator, and Roberta Harkey (parishioner). Many other clergy from the area are here as well including Jim McCaslin from All Souls, Neil Lebhar from Church of the Redeemer, Eric Dudley from...