restructuring

Bishop Joey Royal: “The main problem with the ACoC it that for decades it has been ‘reimagining’ itself into the image of the prevailing culture, and not the gospel. More ‘reimagining’ will only make it worse.”

By Mark Clavier Come, labor on. Who dares stand idle on the harvest plain while all around us waves the golden grain? And to each servant does the...

As we take stock of General Convention, it would be easy to follow the lead of mass media and place emphasis on the Presiding Bishop election or same-sex marriage. But I think there was a bigger story.

House of Bishops completes vast reduction of church’s standing commissions.

Deputies took an assertive step to preserve the presiding bishop’s executive power.

Most of the talk going into General Convention was about three things: a new presiding bishop, marriage, and restructuring the church. We already know most (though not all) of what will happen with respect to the first two. What about 2012's goal of "reimagining the church"? In the battle between structural reform and institutional inertia, is inertia winning?

“The great thing about the Episcopal Church is that we decide these things for ourselves.”

Bishop Mary Glasspool: “I’ve never seen a hearing before the Convention got officially started.”

PB: “We need to be fearless in examining what will come before us.”