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Expect more analysis and prognostications on this development (The links in Weblog's October posting on "Where Else to Go for News and Analysis of the Anglican Primates' Meeting" are just as relevant for this story). For now, it seems that that the creation of this network could be either a major or minor development, depending on how ECUSA officials and global primates (leaders of national Anglican bodies worldwide) respond to it. As American Anglican Council president David C. Anderson wrote in a recent letter to his members, "Will there ultimately be such a 'replacement' jurisdiction? We can't know, and even if we desired it, it is not up to the AAC or orthodox Episcopalians to make that decision. It is up to the Anglican Primates."

"We're acutely conscious that this has never happened before," Kendall Harmon, of the Diocese of South Carolina, told The Christian Science Monitor, We're trying to create structures where we can encourage and protect each other, and it's up to the international [Anglican] Communion to adjudicate this."

Salvation Army receives $1.5 billion:

• Kroc leaves $1.5 billion to Salvation Army | Bequest of McDonald's heiress to fund 2 dozen community centers (The Washington Post)
  
  
• Salvation Army receives a gift of $1.5 billion | Joan B. Kroc, the wife of the builder of the McDonald's restaurant chain, left the charity the money in her will when she died last fall (The New York Times)
  
  
• Joan Kroc's estate gives Salvation Army $1.5 billion | The group will use the money to build as many as 30 community centers in poor neighborhoods (Los Angeles Times)
  
  
• 'Soup, soap and salvation' comfort millions | Founded in the 1870s to provide "soup, soap and salvation" for lost souls, the Salvation Army now provides services to more than 42 million needy people a year at 9,000 centers in the United States (Los Angeles Times)
  
  
• Kroc gift benefits Salvation Army centers | Gift is the largest single donation ever given to a charitable group (Associated Press)
  
  
• Over $1.5 billion served | In a politically correct age the unabashed evangelism of the Salvation Army may appear a throwback, especially when set against the trendier outreach programs and rehab shops of today. But the homeless and addicted who continue to seek the Salvation Army's help in reclaiming their broken lives apparently find comfort in an outfit that speaks as much to their souls as their bodies (Editorial, The Wall Street Journal)
  
  

Kenya constitution:

• Churches plot a constitution takeover | The faiths-led Ufungamano Initiative yesterday released its own draft constitution, which it said it wanted presented to Kenyans through a referendum run by the electoral commission (The Nation, Nairobi, Kenya)
  
  
• Kibwana thrown out at Bomas | Assistant Minister Kivutha Kibwana was yesterday kicked out as a committee leader at the National Constitutional Conference for openly supporting the draft constitution released by religious leaders last week (The Nation, Nairobi, Kenya)
  
  
• Draft bodes ill for review | The religious leaders who presented an alternative draft constitution yesterday run every risk of being seen to present a hidden agenda (Editorial, The Nation, Nairobi, Kenya)
  
  
• Throw out parallel draft, say Muslims | The document's rejection of kadhi courts had threatened the existing religious harmony, said Sheikh Juma Ngao, chairman of the Supreme Council of Kenya Muslims (East African Standard, Nairobi)
  
  
• Bishop: Why church broke off | The church has lost faith in the constitutional review talks currently going on at the Bomas of Kenya, Catholic Archbishop John Njue has said (East African Standard, Nairobi)
  
  

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