Holy smoke! What a headline!

Posted on June 20, 2008 
Filed under Opinion

holy smokeAgain and again, we need to stress that newspaper reporters rarely, if ever, write the headlines for their stories.

I mention this because of a stunning headline in The Telegraph about the pre-Lambeth strategy meeting that conservatives are having right now in Jerusalem (after making a quick exit from Jordan, for complicated and perhaps political reasons). There are many complex angles to the Global Anglican Future Conference, or GAFCON, which is why this particular headline simply leaps off the page:

Anglican church schism declared over homosexuality

– Terry Mattingly at GetReligion comments on some of the more sensational reports about GAFCON.