Day: July 6, 2012

Episcopal News Service (ENS) has reports of today’s hearings, meetings, and events of General Convention. One hearing with passionate testimony was by the committee dealing with resolutions about

The Mainstream Media (MSM) reports on General Convention. Sex and gender lead the stories, of course:

The Committee on Structure cut to the chase this morning, editing D016 down from eight resolutions to one: Sell the Episcopal Church headquarters at 815 Second Avenue before the 78th General Convention.

At stake is a way of governing our church that allows lay people and clergy to act as equals to our bishops in making decisions. Our concept of sharing power between lay, clergy and bishops is not the way much of the Anglican Communion is governed. Our General Convention is far more democratic than church councils in other nations. If we are to sacrifice the General Convention as a “sacred cow,” we’d best have a much better way of making decisions than has been suggested to date.

The Rev. Marshall Scott reports: At any given General Convention, perhaps the most interesting questions is, “What are we really going to argue about?” That might seem an odd question. After all, before the Convention begins there have been meetings and conversations and unnumbered blog posts to discuss the issues.