Amid all the calls the restructuring, instead of setting up a new special commission to study what could be done and calling a special convention to recommend canonical changes, perhaps the Church would be better served by implementing A073, which focuses on the actual doing of mission.
From Episcopal News Service: The Anglican Bishop in Jerusalem, a former Episcopal bishop of Washington and four Iranian Shi’ite Muslims, two holding the rank of
I have had a difficult time understanding exactly what Trinity, Wall Street could and couldn’t have done to avoid a situation in which an Episcopal Church was involved in the criminal prosecution of a retired Episcopal bishop and an Episcopal priest for what seems to me, at this point, to be little more than street theater.
by Stephen Edmondson In their report to this summer’s General Convention, the Theology Committee of the House of Bishops committed themselves to formulating “a renewed
The logic of accommodation on religious grounds has never meant that the law in question—requiring military service, say, or vaccinations—is itself a violation of religious liberty and must be repealed. That is the argument that the bishops are trying to make, but it is muddled and unconvincing.
Updated Retired Bishop George Packard and seven other defendants have been found guilty of trespassing for climbing a fence and entering an empty lot owned
Ezekiel Stoddard is 11. Last month, he was ordained as a minister in his family’s independent Pentecostal church, an act sanctioned by the state of Maryland.
Okay, we’ve compiled our wish lists for General Convention. Now tell us what you think will happen to key legislation. Two guess from me: the
The United States Supreme Court has decided to let stand a ruling that upholds the Episcopal Diocese of Connecticut’s victory in the Connecticut Supreme Court.
General Convention starts in 16 days. What would you like to see happen in Indianapolis? What would you like not to happen?