After a cautious — and sometimes contentious — meeting April 17-20, the ELCA Church Council decided by 30 "yes" votes and three abstentions to ask synods, congregations and individuals to review and respond to a revised proposal for full communion with the Episcopal Church. The roll-call vote, the first in the council's history, came during hours of discussion spread over three days.
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