This interesting opinion piece gets behind the current Episcopal / Anglican flap over homosexuality and looks in some depth at the history of colonial churches in the British Empire, now Commonwealth. It recounts the split of the American branch from its mother Church of England, and points out that Nigerian and other African members of the Anglican Communion have a different, more centralized, history. It doesn't mention the fact that the British Crown maintained a monopoly on publishing material like Bibles in the American colonies: they published the, umm, KING James Version until independence. One wonders what the story is in Nigeria?