Guide to General Convention

Updated. A version of Episcopal Life's Guide to General Convention and all the major documents a deputy or General Convention junkie could ever need are all available on-line.

The e-Life Convention Guide can be found here. Once opened through a web-browser, it can be downloaded and used offline.

Nick Knisely, Dean of Trinity Cathedral in Phoenix and Cafe contributor, points to these on-line resources over at Entangled States:

It turns out that pretty much all the big publications that deputies will need access to on the floor can be downloaded to be stored on a computer. The Blue Book and the Bishop's and Deputies Handbooks are online from the General Convention website. The Report of the Church Pension Group, with the additional information about the proposed resolutions to this coming Convention are found on the CPG.org website here.

Don't forget to grab a copy of the proposed budget here.

And the latest version of the draft schedule appears to be posted here.

Posted by Andrew Gerns on July 3, 2009 7:50 PM | |
Comments (2)

Why the General Convention office decided it would be helpful to publish the Convention Guide in a non-standard format that requires you to use Adobe Air (a resource hogging mind-numbingly bad install) is beyond me.

But, be of good cheer! It is possible for the intrepid traveler to find at the bottom of the page of the "download" link off the Convention Guide, a small, hardly noticeable link that will point you to a pdf download version of the convention guide.

Which is actually useful.

Posted by Nicholas Knisely [TypeKey Profile Page] | July 4, 2009 9:50 AM

Thanks for the tip, Nick. I tried the more visible download but realized it was going to make me read the doc in the same annoying format off-line as well.

A case of being wooed by "slicker is better even if it's not user-friendly."

Heidi Shott

Posted by hls [TypeKey Profile Page] | July 4, 2009 12:04 PM

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