Tag: General Convention 2012 Live

The Mainstream Media (MSM) reports on General Convention. Sex and gender lead the stories, of course:

The Committee on Structure cut to the chase this morning, editing D016 down from eight resolutions to one: Sell the Episcopal Church headquarters at 815 Second Avenue before the 78th General Convention.

At stake is a way of governing our church that allows lay people and clergy to act as equals to our bishops in making decisions. Our concept of sharing power between lay, clergy and bishops is not the way much of the Anglican Communion is governed. Our General Convention is far more democratic than church councils in other nations. If we are to sacrifice the General Convention as a “sacred cow,” we’d best have a much better way of making decisions than has been suggested to date.

The Rev. Marshall Scott reports: At any given General Convention, perhaps the most interesting questions is, “What are we really going to argue about?” That

Melodie Woerman of

Episcopal Relief and Development will lose more than $700,000 that the Executive Council of the Episcopal Church intended to send its way if the church’s General Convention adopts a budget proposal offered by Presiding Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori.

Bishop Steve Lane from the Diocese of Maine presents a nice intro to General Convention in this video message to the folks back home. “The

Politics is not a dirty word – it refers to the art of living together in community, and it applies to Christ’s body as much as it does to the various nations in which this Church is present. We don’t yet live in the fullness of the reign of God, even though we do see glimpses of it around us and among us. Our task is to gather the various parts of this body of Christ, together with any partners who share our values, for the work of building societies that look more like the reign of God

“We’re on the Promised Land highway, and we’re spending a lot of time acting like the Israelites. We whine, we don’t trust each other, and we try to hoard what we have been given even though it won’t keep. Even though when we take more than we need, it breeds worms and becomes foul. And I’m pretty sure that we can all name some golden calves that we’ve been worshiping. We need to cut it out. All of us.”

Highlights from the relatively few posts so far as people get settled in: The Michigan GC Deputies Blog shares a photo and recap on honoring