From Episcopal News Service: The Province II Court of Review has released its Report of Findings regarding the Contestation of the election of the bishop
“Job’s friends were able to be still and silent with him and for him. His suffering was so great and inflicted on him in a way that no mere human could control that their presence was the only gift they could offer their friend.”
Some older alumni see the changes as an effort to abandon history and tradition. Sewanee alumnus James K. Polk Van Zandt, a 65-year-old retired Episcopal reverend, said he was on the university’s board for decades but became frustrated by repeated efforts to erase the institution’s past. “Whether we like it or not, it is part of our history,” said Mr. Van Zandt, who is white. “If they got kids from New Jersey who don’t want to go there, let them go somewhere else.” – Wall Street Journal
“It’s as if really seeing Jesus in his totality is all that is necessary to usher in the Kingdom of Heaven.”
“We need to listen to certain stories again and again, whether those from our religious traditions, from our cultural traditions (oral traditions or folk tales), or even from the corpus of Shakespeare or Toni Morrison or Star Wars, if preferred. We need to pick a tradition we admire, and then let it work through us. Story is somehow essential, somehow part of the warp and weft of the universe, part of our God-nature.”
Vorhees College, Saint Augustine’s University, Episcopal Migration Ministries and Episcopal Relief and Development were among the Episcopal ministries receiving funding from General Convention 79 gifts.
The Rt Revd Gayle E. Harris, Bishop Suffragan in the Episcopal Diocese of Massachusetts has issued a statement clarifying and apologizing for comments she offered during a debate at General Convention regarding Israel and Palestine.
“Open the hearts of our children to love learning. May their eyes sparkle in wonder. May their hands create beauty. May their minds be open to possibility. May their curiosity be piqued. May they see your hands guiding them.”
This election will be the final act of our Annual Convention. The Bishop Provisional will be an experienced Bishop who will have the canonical authority of a Bishop Diocesan, and who will partner with us in a thorough diocesan review to enable us to prepare for a healthy call for our next Bishop Diocesan. – The Standing Committee of the Diocese of Virginia
“Each of these sins – loss of faith, loss of hope, loss of patience, loss of humility (pride), and loss of serenity (avarice) – are pitfalls in our living, as well as our dying.”