Communion without baptism

By Daniel Martins During the weeks preceding this past summer’s General Convention of the Episcopal Church, there was a significant amount of attention paid to...

Theologians oppose the proposal, and there is limited time for debate at a shortened General Convention.

By Matthew Kemp  As we approach the next (belated) General Convention, there is once again a proposal, Resolution C028, to rescind the requirement that one...

A resolution in support of the practice faces long odds at General Convention.

By Daniel Martins According to the materials that have been made available to bishops and deputies who will be in Baltimore this summer for the...

The General Convention will consider eliminating the canon requiring that only baptized people can receive Holy Communion.

Our liturgy does not allow us to ignore the fact that more is at stake in communion than issues of hospitality and psychological and emotional benefit.

Have I engaged this topic in a way that leads to the flourishing that you very beautifully call forth from male leaders? One day God will make this clear. But isn’t the point of dialogue to enter into the fray and to refine each other through enhanced mutual understanding?

By keeping the love of our neighbor and working toward shalom in our communities at the forefront of everything we do, we can engage in these conversations with a love and humility that will then lead to the mutual thriving of those in our communities and extend outwards to the world around us.

Hospitality does not mean inviting people into the most sacramentally intimate spaces of the Christian life, it means being honest about intentions, healthy boundaries, the shape and form such commitments will take, and yes, eventually, the intimate sharing of one body with another. If consent is important in our debates about sexual boundaries, how is it also not important for sacramental boundaries?