Anglican Guerrillas in America 
The idea of Anglican guerrillas seems oxymoronic. But in fact, they not only see themselves in this way, but the longterm guerrilla war being waged by rightwing Anglican activists against the American Episcopal Church (the American branch of the world Anglical communion) may be headed for a watershed moment, according to a report in the San Francisco Chronicle:
The possibility that senior leaders of an historic protestant denomination might refuse to sit at the same table with the elected leader of the American church -- is a signal accomplishment of the Washington, DC-based Institute on Religion and Democracy; the agency bankrolled for a generation by Richard Mellon Scaife, (and other strategic funders of the modern conservative movement and the religious right) to foment division and schism in the mainline American protestant churches.
Thursday in the African nation of Tanzania. Leaders of at least 20 of the church's 38 branches around the world have said they will refuse at a meeting there to share communion or "sit at the same table" with the American church's leader, Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori, who supports the ordination of gay clergy and bishops.
The possibility that senior leaders of an historic protestant denomination might refuse to sit at the same table with the elected leader of the American church -- is a signal accomplishment of the Washington, DC-based Institute on Religion and Democracy; the agency bankrolled for a generation by Richard Mellon Scaife, (and other strategic funders of the modern conservative movement and the religious right) to foment division and schism in the mainline American protestant churches.
Wait... There's more! (1330 words in story)
Episcopal Newspaper Exposes Rightwing Agencies
The Washington Window, the newspaper of the Episcopal Diocese of Washington has joined a growing number of publications inside and outside mainline Christianity to publish exposes of the efforts of rightist agencies to destabilize the historic mainline Protestant churches in the U.S.
The two-part series by former Washington Post and New York Times reporter James Naughton examines, according to a press release, the network of conservative groups, "their donors and the strategy that has allowed them to destabilize the Episcopal Church.... The groups represent a small minority of church members, but relationships with wealthy American donors and powerful African bishops have made them key players in the fight for the future of the Anglican Communion "to warn deputies that they must repent of their liberal attitudes on homosexuality or face a possible schism."
Wait... There's more! (1 comment, 1725 words in story)
