Once again, that’s pretty good. But, “in recent years?”
Why not note that an earlier bishop of South Carolina ”” the very diocese at the heart of this local, regional and national (with global links, too) story ”” had taken the radical act of breaking liturgical Communion with the national church in 1992, at that time privately, and then publicly in 1999? And what was the issue then? The worship of other gods, literally, at some Episcopal altars.
In other words, the timeline is long and complicated. There are stories in there, especially for a newspaper in Charleston, S.C.
Update: James Gibson has more to say on this Get Religion/SC coverage piece there.