By Neva Rae Fox Here are some interesting statistics and details about the 80th General Convention. Julia Ayala Harris is the youngest person to be elected president of the House of Deputies. She is also the first Latina to be elected to that post. The Rev. Gay Clark Jennings served 31 years in the House […]
Archives for July 10, 2022
It’s ‘Bishop Suffragan,’ Not ‘Suffragan Bishop’
By Kirk Petersen It’s all too easy for an outsider with no skin in the game to make snarky comments about the sausage-making inherent in any large legislative process. Ridicule is the lowest form of commentary. It’s also kinda fun, so let’s have at it. The 802 voting members of the House of Deputies have […]
Bishop Sutton: Repair the Breach
By Neva Rae Fox Bishop Eugene Taylor Sutton of the Diocese of Maryland charged the church Sunday morning to take “great strides to tear down all walls of inequity and injustice and start building bridges across the divides in our communities, in our churches, in our dioceses, and across the Episcopal Church.” In his 29-minute […]
New York City has hosted General Convention 13 times, but not since 1913.
Bishops Chart the Prayer Book’s Future
By Mark Michael The House of Bishops voted unanimously Saturday evening to clarify the definition of the Book of Common Prayer in the church’s constitution, while proposing steps to classify dozens of additional liturgical texts approved in recent decades. The resolution, FA031, was hammered out as a compromise by a diverse group of bishops, including […]
Jesus Is the Answer
By Howard Gregory A Reading from the Gospel of Mark 1:21-27 21 They went to Capernaum, and when the Sabbath came, he entered the synagogue and taught. 22 They were astounded at his teaching, for he taught them as one having authority and not as the scribes. 23 Just then there was in their synagogue a […]