General Convention Comes to a Close – August 9, 2009

News
5 $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

Opinion
11 Editor’s Column
Letter to My Successor

10 Editorials
Bad for Communion

11 Reader’s Viewpoint
The Justice-Inclusion Church
BY BILL MURCHISON

12 Letters
Dioceses Discerning

Other Departments
4 Sunday’s Readings

14 People & Places