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The election of lay and clergy representatives of the Joint Nominating Committee for the Election of the Presiding Bishop will continue into the fifth ballot on Tuesday with three lay members and two clergy members still to be chosen. Lay members Deborah Harmon Hines...
President Jennings gave these opening remarks to an online meeting of Executive Council on June 25: Good morning. It’s good to be with all of you on Zoom today. Thank you for your prayers and good wishes since our last Executive Council meeting in April, when my...
As a priest in the Episcopal Church, where we have struggled for decades to treat LGBTQ+ people with the dignity they deserve and God demands, I am disappointed by the Supreme Court’s decision in the case of Fulton v. City of Philadelphia. Scholars can debate the...
Dear Bishops and Deputies: A week from today—Tuesday, June 8—we will begin the online election for the Joint Nominating Committee for the Election of the Presiding Bishop. This way of electing leaders will be an experiment—one of many we have undertaken during the...
For decades, General Convention has helped the Episcopal Church move closer to full inclusion for LGBTQ+ Episcopalians, but the work is not yet done. On May 18, Deputy Jen Adams of Western Michigan, Deputies Christopher Hayes and Cameron Partridge, both of California,...
The draft schedule for the 80th General Convention is now online. In a new video, House of Deputies Parliamentarian Bryan Krislock, a member of the Joint Standing Committee on Planning and Arrangements, explains some of the schedule's new features that are designed to...
Dear Deputies: In preparation for the 80th General Convention in July 2022, I am beginning the process of appointing deputies to legislative committees. The Presiding Bishop and I wrote to bishops and deputies about our plans for legislative committees on February 23;...
Today we remember the Rev. Florence Li Tim-Oi, born in Hong Kong in 1907, ordained a deacon in 1941, and ordained a priest in 1944. This makes her the first woman ordained a priest in the Anglican Communion – at least that we know about. There are some who say that...
Dear Bishops and Deputies: When we wrote to you in November announcing that General Convention would be postponed until July 7-14, 2022, we committed to appointing deputy and bishop legislative committees early and charging them to begin their work virtually in...
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