Do you love me?
—Jesus to Simon Peter, John 21:16
As an American Episcopalian I belong to a family of forty-four autonomous churches[1] called the Anglican Communion, which currently numbers some 80 million members around the globe and which is now close to schism because of a bitter dispute about homosexuality. I must admit that until quite recently I did not pay much attention to what is often called “the crisis in the Anglican Communion”—in spite of, though perhaps also because of, the fact that for many years I worked some hours of each…
