The Lead

Episcopal News Service reports that the HoB Theology Committee has put together a process to information and response from the whole of the Episcopal Church prior to their September meeting:

"The Theology Committee of the Episcopal Church's House of Bishops on June 1 released a study document aimed at helping the bishops respond to the requests made to them by the Primates of the Anglican Communion.
...Theology Committee chair and Alabama Bishop Henry Parsley told Episcopal News Service that the report is meant for bishops to use in conversation with the people of their dioceses in the three and a half months between now and the mid-September meeting of the House of Bishops in New Orleans. Rather than call for responses from individual Episcopalians, Parsley said the committee will in late August and early September gather input from bishops on the result of their conversations in their dioceses.
He said the committee hopes that Episcopalians will 'read, mark, inwardly digest and then come talk' about the document with their bishop.
'Every diocese will have to do that in their own way,' he said. 'We didn't want it to be an individual thing. We wanted it to be a diocesan, corporate process overseen by the bishop.'"

This process seems to be in addition to the responses being collected by the Episcopal Church Executive Council which are due by June 4th.

Read the rest here, along with links to the documents: Episcopal Life Online - NEWS

Comments (2)

The document seems to cover the history with a hint that someone will have to sacrifce (Phil 2:4-7 - looking to the others' interests). Of course, I assume that will be gays and lesbians which may or may not be the case. The question for me is do we have to choose? and why? to remain in community. Why can't we live through this in the same messy way we lived through other controversies?

Posted by Ann Fontaine | June 2, 2007 9:24 AM

I guess others will have noted this by now, but the Exec Council was (until today) collecting input on the Draft Covenant, and the HoB is looking for input on the Communique. Mark Harris has some good thoughts on all this over at his blog, Preludium.

Posted by Scott Gunn | June 4, 2007 10:58 PM

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