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Best known as the young George Bailey in the holiday classic It's a Wonderful Life, actor Robert Anderson appeared in other films, including A Tree Grows in Brooklyn and The Bishop's Wife, after playing the childhood version of Jimmy Stewart's now beloved character. But by the time the Frank Capra film--not an immediate hit--became ubiquitous on holiday television in the 1970s, Anderson was well into the next phase of his career: behind the lens, working as a photographer, assistant director and producer...
...June 7, the Rt. Rev. V. Gene Robinson, whose 2003 election as the first openly gay Episcopal bishop sparked death threats, entered into a civil union with his partner of 20 years, Mark Andrew. Robinson said he wanted the security and "protections ... offered to me in a civil union...
...boot because he led a batch of U.S. Episcopal congregations, including the one where he was church rector, out of Episcopalianism and into the authority of the Anglican archdiocese of Nigeria - primarily out of dismay that Episcopalianism had elected the openly gay Robinson to be the bishop of New Hampshire. And Robinson, 61, a chatty, gray-haired Kentuckian who once said he looked forward to being a "June bride," was blackballed from Lambeth (which will convene in Canterbury) because Williams felt that the Episcopal church in the U.S. had made him a bishop in the teeth of advice...
...clear that Robinson, for one, wishes he had not been excluded from Lambeth. He will be present in Canterbury as the meeting is held; and on two evenings his fellow American bishops will invite small groups of their colleagues to "meet me, hear a bit of my story, and see that their brother bishop Gene doesn't have horns and wear a dress...
Meanwhile, as befits Minns' ambivalence about the power structure behind Lambeth, the conservative bishop plans to stay away. "I'm not invited," he says, "so why go? I have a life." Yet his life will keep him in the general area. "It just so happens that I do have family in England," he says. "In Nottingham, Penzance, and the Isle of Wight. I'll be there for little bit." Just in case he's needed, one presumes...