[Robert Duncan’s] take on Islam echoed the more strident tone of conservative U.S. evangelicals and not those who have called for \u201cinter-faith dialogue\u201d\u009d with Muslims.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019ve got to be about the business of engaging Islam \u201d\u00a6 secularism, and materialism, but especially Islam. Because there is only one way to the Father, it\u2019s the only way. It\u2019s a matter of life and death,\u201d\u009d he said to warm applause.<\/p>\n
On another note, he evoked the Church of England\u2019s founding father Henry VIII \u201d\u201d crowned King of England 500 years ago \u201d\u201c and held him up as an example of \u201d\u009da ruler in the end gone astray, confiscating the property of a church in an almost contemporary way.\u201d\u009d<\/p>\n
This comparison of the legal battles between dissident dioceses and the Episcopal Church over property to Henry VIII\u2019s dissolution of the monasteries was probably meant in a light-hearted way. But it could also be taken as a jab from a new alliance that wants to come out swinging.<\/p>\n