History's humongous wheel turns and turns and turns again. Over time, mud and sludge accumulate on even the sprucest institutions. Take the 500-year-old Anglican family of churches, Christianity's third-largest, after Rome and Eastern Orthodoxy.

With Anglicanism's biggest family event under way — the every-10-years gathering of bishops and archbishops in England — what the world sees, accurately or not, is a family in moral and spiritual disarray.

Anglicans — ...

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