Julia Ayala Harris, a deputy from the Diocese of Oklahoma, was elected today as president of the House of Deputies of the Episcopal Church. Her term as one of the denomination’s two presiding officers begins on Monday at the close of the church’s General Convention in Baltimore. She will be the first Latina and first…
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House of Deputies Elects Julia Ayala Harris President
House of Deputies Orientation
On July 1, President Jennings led an orientation for the House of Deputies. Watch the video on YouTube (Spanish subtitles in process).
From President Jennings: Responding to the Supreme Court Decision on Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization
Although we all knew that today’s Supreme Court decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization was coming, its arrival is still a blow to people of all faiths and none who have cherished, for nearly 50 years, the hope of equal access to reproductive health care. As I said in May, when a draft…
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Gay Clark Jennings
President, House of Deputies
