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Earlier: Gay issues spark church conference | Spurred by their church's decision to recognize gay bishops and same-sex marriages, more than 2,600 Episcopalians will meet in Dallas for the next three days to discuss their religious future, including possibly taking the first steps toward splitting the second-largest church in the world. (Ft. Worth Star-Telegram, Tex.)

A battle for a church's soul | U.S. Episcopalians may split over gay bishop, same-sex marriages (USA Today)

Also: Episcopalian groups war over gay clergy issue (USA Today)

Episcopal group ponders split | At a gathering in Dallas, conservatives decry the election of a gay bishop. They seek a parallel, orthodox church. (Los Angles Times)

Episcopalians draft grievance | Faction wants U.S. church wrested from liberal leaders (Chicago Tribune)

Conservatives meet to realign Episcopal church | Pittsburgh bishop calls leaders 'deaf' (Post-Gazette Pittsburgh, Pa.)

U.S. protest over gay bishop | Conservative Christians in the US have begun a large protest meeting in Dallas, Texas, over the election of the US Episcopal Church's first openly gay bishop. (BBC)

Episcopal right has its day in Dallas | Election of gay bishop spurs move to supplant church (The Atlanta Journal-Constitution)

In South, Episcopal schism pondered | Sundays haven't been quite the same at Christ Church Greenville since the Episcopal Church USA approved the election of a gay bishop in faraway New Hampshire. (The Boston Globe)

Angry Anglicans push for split over gay bishop | Still seething over the impending installation of an openly gay bishop in the Episcopal Church, more than 2,500 conservative clergy and parishioners will convene Tuesday in Dallas to implore international Anglican leaders to disown their liberal brethren in the United States.

Episcopalians 'stand' against gay bishop | A council of war for conservative Episcopalians gets under way today, when 2,200 of them meet in Dallas to consider ways to protest the recent confirmation of a practicing homosexual priest as the new bishop of New Hampshire. (The Washington Times)

Plano priest a 'most unlikely' crusader | Plano rector a leader in push for split in Episcopal Church (The Dallas Morning News)

No welcome for observers at Texas meeting of conservatives (Episcopal News Service)

Opinion pieces on the meeting include:

A rift worse than schism? | The crisis in the Anglican Communion seems to foreshadow a rift worse than a schism for world Christianity. (Uwe Siemon-Netto, UPI)

Schism would amount to copout | Ever since the Episcopal Church decided this summer to affirm the election of an openly gay man to the office of bishop, there has been talk of schism. Homosexuality has been a bitterly contentious topic for the church. (William B. Lawrence, The Dallas Morning News)

Matters of faith aren't resolved by walking out | As the controversy regarding the election of an openly gay man as bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of New Hampshire has swirled around the world the last few weeks, I often have thought of a phrase from the Episcopal Church's Book of Common Prayer. (Liz Oliphant, The Dallas Morning News)

Looming Schism: Anglican split is between First, Third Worlds | The lobby of a Dallas luxury hotel filled with Anglicans isn't many people's idea of a revolutionary cell, but that's exactly what it is. (Editorial, The Dallas Morning News)

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