General Convention Comes to a Close – August 9, 2009 January 10, 2013 News5 $141 Million Budget Includes Many Staff Reductions 5 Deputies and Bishops Agree to Affirm Gay and Lesbian Persons in All Orders 7 Liturgies to be Developed for Same-Sex Blessings Opinion11 Editor’s ColumnLetter to My Successor 10 EditorialsBad for Communion 11 Reader’s ViewpointThe Justice-Inclusion ChurchBY BILL MURCHISON 12 LettersDioceses Discerning Other Departments4 Sunday’s Readings 14 People & Places