Gay Clark Jennings – Episcopal Cafe

Opening remarks to Executive Council include lament, repentance, protest, hope

June 9, 2020 No Comments

“There’ve been protests before. But something’s different about this one. This time it’s not just black folk and a few white folk protesting. This time it is the rainbow children of God. This time they are black and white and Anglo and Latino. It’s amazing. They’re gay, they’re straight. They’re Mitt Romney, a Republican. This is something different going on. And that gives me hope. God’s got a witness and it is a multiethnic, it is e pluribus unum.” – Presiding Bishop Michael Curry addressing the opening of the Executive Council’s virtual meeting.

Letting Our Light Shine: In Texas

August 16, 2017 No Comments

the Texas legislature adjourned its special session without passing a so-called “bathroom bill,” which threatened to write discrimination against transgender people into state law.

Gay Clark Jennings: reconciliation or resistance

November 15, 2016 6 Comments

Writing for the Episcopal News Service, President of the House of Deputies, the Reverend Gay Clark Jennings discusses, “Why reconciliation with Donald Trump may be impossible for some Christians.”

Presiding Bishop, President of the House of Deputies on discrimination

June 28, 2016 No Comments

“We all know that some things in holy Scripture can be confusing, hard to understand, or open to various ways of understanding. But some essential teachings are clear and incontrovertible. Jesus tells us to love God and love our neighbor as ourselves, and he tells us over and over again not to be afraid.”

President Jennings’ opening remarks to Executive Council

June 8, 2016 No Comments

“If our quest for institutional parity prevents us from standing in the crowd alongside the woman who touched Jesus’ garment to be made well, then no number of women clergy or bishops will ever make us whole.” -Jennings

Curry vs. Jennings Challenge UNC vs Syracuse

March 30, 2016 1 Comment

Episcopal Relief and Development wins no matter which team prevails.

Letter from President Jennings on the death of Tom Palermo

February 9, 2015 67 Comments

The Rev. Gay Clark Jennings, President of the House of Deputies, has written a letter addressed to deputies and alternate deputies about different actions the

Executive Council: Opening remarks from the PB and PHoD

June 8, 2013 2 Comments

Presiding Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori and the Rev. Gay Clark Jennings, President of the House of Deputies, have given opening remarks at the meeting of the Episcopal Church’s Executive Council, in session until Monday near Baltimore.

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