Among the highlights of the day are a “Gi-Normous Musical Chairs Contest” in stadium seats at 1:15 p.m. and an attempt to set a Guinness record for most people dancing Samba (in honor of the church’s Brazilian guests) at 1:30 p.m.
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A Facebook group has been formed to encourage prayer for General Convention starting this week.
Construction spending on religious institutions has fallen off a cliff.
It is highly unusual for the existence of a complaint to become public knowledge at this point in the process, regardless the order of the person against whom the complaint is filed.
A dozen bishops, led by the Rt. Rev. Thomas Ely of Vermont, have filed a resolution calling on the Program, Budget and Finance Committee to submit a budget to the General Convention that reduces to 15 percent the percentage of diocesan revenue to be committed to the budget of the wider church in 2016-18. I had previously reported that the bishops wanted the asking cut to 15 percent for the 2013-2015 triennium as well. This is incorrect.
Psalms [120,] 121, 122, 123 (Morning) Psalms 124, 125, 126, [127] (Evening) Numbers 22:21-38 Romans 7:1-12 Matthew 21:23-32 So Balaam got up in the morning,