Executive Council

Insight Global’s study revealed a passion for the church’s mission among church center staff coupled, with an organizational culture plagued by territoriality and resistance to change. Bishops reported that support from the church center was poorly defined, and that they were especially in need of more support in handling Title IV matters, evangelism, and crisis communications.

“Today in the Episcopal Church we are faced with institutional structures that we have for some time now permitted to atrophy. They have lost their ability to do what we need to do…. All of these values that we say that we hold, all the ways that we want to witness in the world – we have to have the capacity to carry that out.”

Bishop Sean Rowe: “You can only have a helpful evaluative structure if you have a strategy to evaluate.”

In a preview of what is likely to be a contentious debate at the June General Convention, Executive Council labeled Israel's ongoing war against...

A searing account from a Palestinian priest

For the first time in more than a year, Presiding Bishop Michael B. Curry physically attended a meeting of the Executive Council beginning April...

The Executive Council's January meeting provided a foretaste of a potential drama over the selection of the next executive officer of the General Convention, who is the third-ranking officer of the church.

The church is trying to limit the financial impact on low-paid service workers in Baltimore.

A shorter schedule with fewer people, for essential business only.

Postponement, a shortened schedule, and robust precautions will all be up for discussion at a May 11 online meeting.