Executive Council

Proposal would give Executive Council firing power on COO, CFO, and Chief Legal Officer.

Highlights from resolutions adopted by Executive Council at its meeting in Phoenix, June 10-12.

By Steve Waring • Budget subcommittee wants to “engage the church in a discussion of the fact that not all dioceses meet their full asking.”

The Episcopal Church is accepting nominations through April 10 for its lay representative on the Anglican Consultative Council.

By Thomas Ferguson. Budgets are often understood as extensions of ideological understandings of the nature and role of an institution. In the church, they evidence the ways in which we shape, incarnate, and give emphasis to how we are called to carry out God’s mission entrusted to us.

By Thomas Ferguson The missiology of the Episcopal Church’s proposed budget for 2013-15.

Even as the proposed Anglican Communion Covenant approached its rejection by a majority of dioceses in the Church of England, three Episcopal Church bishops are sponsoring a resolution that supports a continuing Covenant discussion.

Executive Council “expresses thanksgiving for those who worked at producing the Anglican Covenant” and adds that the Episcopal Church is “unable to adopt the Anglican Covenant in its present form.”

Council urges General Convention not to adopt the proposed Anglican Covenant.