A brief commentary on the recent schism in North America. I think hits the nail on the head.
In his Letter to the Galatians, the Apostle Paul describes his frustration with members of "the circumcision faction"-an early group of conserative Jewish-Christians from Jerusalem who refused to eat with the Gentile converts in St. Paul's community in Antioch.
What might Bishop Robert Duncan and other leaders of the new conservative rival denomination to the Episcopal Church share in common with this narrow faction of the early church over whom St. Paul's wider vision ultimately prevailed?
The common thread is a confusion between purity and orthodoxy.
Rest is here-
http://blog.beliefnet.com/progressiverevival/2008/12/the-episcopal-split-a-battle-o.html
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