Friday, July 13, 2018 | General Convention
[Episcopal News Service – Austin, Texas] Three 20th century figures are now a permanent part of the Episcopal Church’s calendar of saints. Thurgood Marshall, Pauli Murray and Florence Li Tim-Oi “are already very widely commemorated within the Episcopal Church,” the...
Friday, July 13, 2018 | General Convention
[Episcopal News Service – Austin, Texas] Much happens each day during General Convention. To complement Episcopal News Service’s primary coverage, we have collected some additional news items from July 13. Bishops express gratitude to witnesses against gun violence...
Friday, July 13, 2018 | General Convention
[Episcopal News Service – Austin, Texas] Efforts that began in 2015 with action by General Convention, when racial reconciliation was identified as a priority of the Episcopal Church, is bearing fruit in work done during the 79th General Convention. That emphasis was...
Friday, July 13, 2018 | General Convention
Some of the 47 members of the special House of Deputies Committee on Sexual Harassment and Exploitation appointed in February by the Rev. Gay Clark Jennings, deputies’ president, gathered at microphone 3 in the House of Deputies July 13 to thank Jennings for the work...
Friday, July 13, 2018 | General Convention
Adapted from Sharon Tillman, ENS The 79th General Convention has committed to revising Lesser Feasts and Fasts and the entire sanctoral calendar with the adoption of Resolution A065. The Blue Book Report filed by the Standing Commission on Liturgy and Music contains...
Friday, July 13, 2018 | General Convention
[Episcopal News Service – Austin, Texas] The 79th General Convention House of Deputies called for a task force to assist the presiding bishop’s Office of Pastoral Development in its work to assist dioceses in the discernment, nomination, search, election and...
Friday, July 13, 2018 | General Convention
The Diocese of Arizona has announced three nominees — all from the East Coast — in the search for its sixth bishop: The Rev. Dena Marcel Cleaver-Bartholomew, rector, Christ Church, Manlius, New York [essay answers] The Rev. Jennifer Anne Reddall, Church of the...
Friday, July 13, 2018 | General Convention
[Episcopal News Service – Austin, Texas] On July 11, the evening of the so-called “after-dark legislative sessions,” the House of Bishops voted on Resolution A218, which called for the 79th General Convention to approve a working version of the Book of Occasional...
Friday, July 13, 2018 | General Convention
[Episcopal News Service – Austin, Texas] Over the next three years, dioceses will have an opportunity to review the province they are currently in and explore whether they wish to become affiliated with a different province. As approved by the 79thGeneral Convention,...
Friday, July 13, 2018 | General Convention
The following is the text of the sermon that Bishop Jennifer Baskerville-Burrows, Episcopal Diocese of Indianapolis, preached at the General Convention Eucharist on July 12, 2018. In the name of the One, Holy, and Living God. Please be seated. Well good evening...
Friday, July 13, 2018 | General Convention
[Episcopal News Service – Austin, Texas] The 79thGeneral Convention took steps during its triennium meeting to provide support for clergy and lay leadership development in small congregations. The convention approved Resolution A022 that directs the creation of a...
Friday, July 13, 2018 | General Convention
By Kirk Petersen Albany Bishop William Love, who passionately but unsuccessfully urged the House of Bishops to reject a resolution on same-sex marriage rites, said he has no plans to leave the Episcopal Church. Love’s anguished afternoon presentation July 11 raised...
Friday, July 13, 2018 | General Convention
The House of Bishops votes on one of the four Israel-Palestine resolutions it took up July 13, the last day of the 79th General Convention in Austin, Texas. [Episcopal News Service – Austin, Texas] The 79th General Convention wrapped up its consideration of...
Friday, July 13, 2018 | General Convention
General Convention Pigeon has been on the move in the House of Deputies — on foot and on the wing — throughout the 79th General Convention. Photo: David Paulsen/Episcopal News Service [Episcopal News Service – Austin, Texas] The bird has been the word for...
Friday, July 13, 2018 | General Convention
The Rev. Sam Candler, deputy from Atlanta and chair of the legislative committee which considered all of the convention’s marriage resolutions, urged the House of Deputies July 13 to accept the bishops’ technical amendment to Resolution B012 and not make any changes....
