Tag: Executive Council

Update, 1:55 pm: A story from Episcopal News Service Deacon Terry Star, a member of Executive Council and seminarian at Nashotah House has died.

After attending the February meeting of the Executive Council

The Executive Council is taking up some difficult issues of governance at its meeting near Baltimore. Episcopal News Service has the story:

This meeting opened with some anxiety, and I think some anticipation of fireworks to come. Happily, fireworks did not go off in my presence. However, the Council addressed some important issues.

In one of council’s two UTO-related resolutions, passed on the final day of its Oct. 15-17 meeting here, members “acknowledged with deep regret the breakdown of communication and relationship between the board of the United Thank Offering and leadership of the Domestic and Foreign Missionary Society.”

Episcopal News Service reports from Executive Council on a presentation by the Task Force for Re-imagining the Episcopal Church:

Presiding Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori and the Rev. Gay Clark Jennings, President of the House of Deputies have offered opening remarks at the meeting of