Friday, July 13, 2018 | General Convention
Before they journey home, we asked several deputies, “where did you see God at General Convention?” The article Deputies Say Goodbye to the 79th General Convention appeared first on House of Deputies News. This post appeared here first: Deputies Say...
Friday, July 13, 2018 | General Convention
By G. Jeffrey MacDonald As the Rev. Megan Castellan set out five months ago on a disciplinary reform project to reduce sexual misconduct in the Episcopal Church, she expected progress to take longer than it has. “Even the most well-meaning people don’t like change if...
Friday, July 13, 2018 | General Convention
[Episcopal News Service – Austin, Texas] Después de rechazar tres enmiendas que les presentaron, los diputados aceptaron, el 12 de julio, el presupuesto 2019-2021 y lo remitieron a la Cámara de Obispos para su consideración. Los obispos actuaron minutos después,...
Friday, July 13, 2018 | General Convention
Sandra Montes canta durante el culto de avivamiento en Austin el 7 de julio. Foto cortesía de Thompson/Diócesis de Alta Carolina del Sur. [Episcopal News Service – Austin, Texas] Durante la 79ª. Convención General, Sandra Montes ha sido una de las voces más destacadas...
Thursday, July 12, 2018 | General Convention
The House of Deputies on Thursday morning passed five resolutions that, if approved by the House of Bishops, would challenge the state of Israel over its treatment of Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza more forcefully than the Episcopal Church has been willing to...
Thursday, July 12, 2018 | General Convention
Miguel Escobar, director of Anglican studies at EDS@Union, wraps up his #GC79 podcast with the ninth and final episode. Listen to the podcast. The article Headed in the Right Direction appeared first on House of Deputies News. This post appeared here first: Headed in...
Thursday, July 12, 2018 | General Convention
La Rda. Nancy Frausto, rectora asociada de la Iglesia Episcopal de San Lucas en Long Beach, California, y miembro fundador del Grupo de Trabajo del Santuario de la Diócesis de Los Ángeles, presenta un podcast de #GC79. Invitadas: María Bautista Vargas es la asociada...
Thursday, July 12, 2018 | General Convention
[Episcopal News Service – Austin, Texas] The 79thGeneral Convention passed three resolutions brought to convention the Commission on Impairment and Leadership, which refers to intervention, evaluation and possible re-entry or action needed related to various...
Thursday, July 12, 2018 | General Convention
By Matthew Townsend and Kirk Petersen By the penultimate day of its deliberations, the 79th General Convention had settled several of the hot button issues anticipated in Austin — churchwide same-sex marriage, a salary for the president of the House of Deputies, and...
Thursday, July 12, 2018 | General Convention
“We do not come in hatred, we do not come in bigotry, we do not come to put anybody down, we come to lift everybody up. We come in love,” Presiding Bishop Michael Curry told a crowd of more than 1,000 gathered in prayer at the T. Don Hutto Detention Center in Taylor,...
Thursday, July 12, 2018 | General Convention
[Episcopal News Service – Austin, Texas] House of Deputies passed five more resolutions July 12 related to the Episcopal Church’s response to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, but those resolutions faced a mixed reaction in the House of Bishops a day after the bishops...
Thursday, July 12, 2018 | General Convention
[Episcopal News Service – Austin, Texas] Both houses of General Convention on July 12 adopted a resolution that allows all congregations in the Episcopal Church to use optional, expansive-language versions of three Rite II Eucharistic prayers in the 1979 Book of...
Thursday, July 12, 2018 | General Convention
The following is the text of the sermon that Brother Aiden Owen, Holy Cross Monastery, Episcopal Diocese of New York, preached at the General Convention Eucharist on July 11, 2018. In the name of the one God who is lover, beloved, and love overflowing. (Amen.) What...
Thursday, July 12, 2018 | Community Ministry, General Convention
by the Very Rev. Bill Terry, rector of St. Anna’s Episcopal Church St. Anna’s Church has long had a reputation of being located in a kind of hardscrabble part of town. The fact is St. Anna’s is a bit odd. But then again so are the people that are...
Thursday, July 12, 2018 | General Convention
[Episcopal News Service – Austin, Texas] The House of Bishops on July 12 approved a resolution to develop and implement a “shareholder engagement plan” to guide dioceses, churches and individual Episcopalians investing in gun manufacturers and retailers to change...
