Wednesday, July 4, 2018 | General Convention
[Episcopal News Service – Austin, Texas] Committee 12, the Legislative Committee on Prayer Book, Liturgy and Music, held its first open hearing the morning of July 4 before the official opening of the 79thGeneral Convention. General Convention mandates that this...
Wednesday, July 4, 2018 | General Convention
[Episcopal News Service] The Christian Formation and Discipleship legislative committee on July 4 formed a sub-committee to further study a consolidated resolution that proposes the creation of a referral hub and provide additional resources for clergy and lay...
Wednesday, July 4, 2018 | General Convention
[Episcopal News Service – Austin, Texas] After more than five decades of separation, the Episcopal Church and the Episcopal Church of Cuba may once again unite. Reunification would not only be good for the churches, but also for the country, said the Rt. Rev. Griselda...
Wednesday, July 4, 2018 | General Convention
Presiding Bishop Michael Curry addresses the joint opening session of the 79 th General Convention in Austin, Texas, on July 4, 2018. Photo: Sharon Tillman/Episcopal News Service [Episcopal News Service – Austin, Texas] The presiding officers of the Episcopal Church...
Wednesday, July 4, 2018 | General Convention
[Episcopal News Service – Austin, Texas] Advocating for a fair and ambitious climate agreement, a carbon fee and planting trees in commemoration of the Paris Agreement topped the agenda July 4 during the Environmental Stewardship and Care of Creation Committee’s first...
Wednesday, July 4, 2018 | General Convention
The Rev. Ian Stanford testifies in favor of non-gendered language during testimony on resolutions dealing with prayer book revision. Photo: Melodie Woerman/Episcopal News Service Full ENS coverage of the 79th meeting of General Convention is available here. [Episcopal...
Wednesday, July 4, 2018 | General Convention
Meet a few of the deputies gathered for the 79th General Convention of the Episcopal Church in Austin, Texas. The article Video: Meet the #GC79 Deputies appeared first on House of Deputies News. This post appeared here first: Video: Meet the #GC79 Deputies [House of...
Wednesday, July 4, 2018 | General Convention
Miguel Escobar, director of Anglican studies at EDS@Union, hosts the first of his nightly #GC79 podcasts. Guests: The Rev. Megan Castellan is the new rector of St.John’s in Ithaca, NY, and an alternate deputy in the diocese of West Missouri. Brendan...
Wednesday, July 4, 2018 | General Convention
“And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us…” (John 1:14). This one verse in the Gospel of John reminds us, as we gathered in Austin for the 79th General Convention of the Episcopal Church, that we are invited to continue God’s movement toward people by all means...
Wednesday, July 4, 2018 | General Convention
Phyllis Tickle: A Life By Jon M. Sweeney Church Publishing. Pp. 274. $26.95 By Phoebe Pettingell I first encountered Phyllis Tickle (1934-2015) in the 1990s through her religion column in Publishers Weekly. Books about religion had hitherto been a niche market, hard...
Wednesday, July 4, 2018 | General Convention
By Steven R. Ford “Radical hospitality” has become an almost mandatory buzz phrase in American liberal Christian denominational statements of identity and purpose. It has rapidly spread to the judicatory and congregational level. One looks almost in vain for any...
Wednesday, July 4, 2018 | General Convention
Diocese of Maryland Assistant Bishop Chilton Knudsen, chair of the House of Bishops’ Legislative Committee 16 – Churchwide Leadership, July 4 holds up the witness list and invites others to testify on any of three resolutions dealing with compensation for the House of...
Wednesday, July 4, 2018 | General Convention
Since January, when the Standing Commission on Liturgy and Music (SCLM) released its Blue Book Report, the subject of Prayer Book revision has been a hot topic on Facebook, in clergy groups, and at gatherings of liturgy aficionados, For the last three years, the...
Wednesday, July 4, 2018 | General Convention
I remember it like it was yesterday. A friend and I were walking from our high school, through a white working-class neighborhood to catch a bus home. This was often a perilous walk, as it was on this particular day. Within a few blocks of our journey a couple of...
Wednesday, July 4, 2018 | General Convention
It hadn’t occurred to me that the political methodology of Donald Trump would see daylight at the 79th General Convention! But, then, I hadn’t looked at a proposal for reconstructing how the church speaks of God and man. And of woman. Woman in particular. The Trump...
