from the Episcopal Cafe
Bishop Gene Robinson's life and ministry is profiled in a new film set to premiere at the Sundance Film Festival on Monday. The movie, "Live Free or Die," is a documentary look at the strains in the Episcopal Church and the Anglican Communion surrounding Bishop Robinson's election, consecration and ministry.
"The film follows Robinson as the church grapples with how to handle LGBT issues. Robinson’s election brought to a head divisions between liberal and conservative members of both the Episcopal Church in the United States and the worldwide body of which it is a part, the Anglican Communion.
Filmmakers followed Robinson to England in 2008, where he was excluded from a global gathering of bishops called the Lambeth Conference. And they followed him to the Episcopal Church’s 2009 General Convention, where leaders voted to give bishops discretion to permit blessings of same-sex marriages, civil unions or domestic partnerships (where legal) and allow gay men and women to become bishops.
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Mon, January 23, 2012
by Caitlin Gutenberger
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