The idea of Anglican guerrillas seems oxymoronic. But in fact, they not only see themselves in this way, but the longterm guerrilla war being waged by rightwing Anglican activists against the American Episcopal Church (the American branch of the world Anglical communion) may be headed for a watershed moment, according to a report in the San Francisco Chronicle:

Thursday in the African nation of Tanzania. Leaders of at least 20 of the church's 38 branches around the world have said they will refuse at a meeting there to share communion or "sit at the same table" with the American church's leader, Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori, who supports the ordination of gay clergy and bishops.

The possibility that senior leaders of an historic protestant denomination might refuse to sit at the same table with the elected leader of the American church -- is a signal accomplishment of the Washington, DC-based Institute on Religion and Democracy; the agency bankrolled for a generation by Richard Mellon Scaife, (and other strategic funders of the modern conservative movement and the religious right) to foment division and schism in the mainline American protestant churches.