The beginnings of the crisis
The resolution that shaped the debate and the election that shook the communion
"Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world"
The way we were: historical background
From Rome to post-establishment America by way of Canterbury
The bishops assembled: the Lambeth Conferences from 1867 to the present
"Surely some revelation is at hand"
The uncompleted struggle for women's ordination: from defective men to the 'conscience clause'
"The blood-dimmed tide is loosed"
From Robinson's election to the present
From the Chapman memo to the Windsor Report: the tension between unity, uniformity, and Episcopal authority
From Dromantine to San Joaquin
"The worst are full of passionate intensity"
Perspectives from the discontented
The conservative plea for moral certainty and ecclesiastical discipline
"Spiritus mundi troubles my sight"
The communion in Africa : from imperially colonized to moral colonizers
"Somewhere in the sands of the desert"
Biblical perspectives on slavery and homosexuality
Reconciling natural law, biblical truth, and the moral abomination of slavery
"Twenty centuries of stony sleep"
The Bible, sex, and the contest of interpretations
"A gaze blank and pitiless as the sun"
Conclusion: The shape of the future.
