It wasn’t South Africa, where she would serve as a university lecturer in international relations. Nor was it Paris, where Lynnaia Main would do graduate study in international relations, learn to speak French fluently and work for UNESCO. No, Main grew up in the rural outskirts of Atlantic […]
We’re baaaack … and we’re bigger and more nimble than ever. Center Aisle is packing its bags to head west from the Diocese of Virginia to Salt Lake City for our sixth General Convention in June 2015 as a force for reconciliation. For those new to Center Aisle, […]
The 78th General Convention of the Episcopal Church will convene June 25-July 3, 2015, in Salt Lake City, Utah – and we’ll be there! Stay tuned for opinions, reflections, prayers and coverage. To learn more about Convention, check out the official website.
In the last hours of its eighth day, General Convention handled a flurry of resolutions covering a wide range of topics. Following the close of Convention, Presiding Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori said at a press conference, “You have seen the Episcopal Church not only of the future, but […]
In one of its last acts, General Convention reaffirmed baptism as the “ancient and normative entry point to receiving Holy Communion,” but did not address the question of “open communion,” the communing of unbaptized people. When C029 was approved by Deputies on Wednesday, it included the sentence, “We […]
Spirited debate took place in the House Deputies Thursday morning over whether to require “any person accepting any office in this Church … to have completed instruction in the history, structure and governance of this Church and in the duties and responsibilities of their office.” Despite the […]
The Structure Committee’s first attempt at restructuring the Church failed in the House of Deputies Thursday. Structure put forward B027 on “re-envisioning committee structure,” which would have ended all Standing Commissions except for Constitution and Canons and Structure. All other Standing Commissions would have been turned into task […]
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