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Leadership, the Canons, and the Incarnation:  2018 Christmas Message

Leadership, the Canons, and the Incarnation: 2018 Christmas Message

As I prepare for Christmas and open myself to greet anew the mystery of the Incarnation, I’ve been reflecting on how I encountered Jesus at General Convention in dancing with the canons, in listening to testimony, in numerous quick cups of coffee and conversation, in...

Response to Bishop Love’s Letter/Respuesta a la carta del Obispo Love

Response to Bishop Love’s Letter/Respuesta a la carta del Obispo Love

For more than 40 years, the Episcopal Church has prayed, studied and discerned and, in doing so, we have seen the evidence of God’s blessing in the lives of LGBT people. The Episcopal Church’s General Convention, our highest temporal authority, first acknowledged that...

Challenging Ourselves to Change:  Executive Council Opening Remarks

Challenging Ourselves to Change: Executive Council Opening Remarks

President Jennings made these remarks to the opening session of Executive Council on October 15: Good morning, and welcome to beautiful Chaska, Minnesota. I’m delighted to be starting a new triennium with all of you, especially those of you who are attending your...

Manna for the Journey:  President Jennings’s Speech to EAM

Manna for the Journey: President Jennings’s Speech to EAM

President Jennings gave this speech at the Episcopal Asiamerica Ministries (EAM) National Consultation in Honolulu, Hawaii, on September 30, 2018: Good evening! Thank you so much, Fred and Bayani, for inviting me to join you for this wonderful Episcopal Asiamerica...

Special Committee on Sexual Harassment and Exploitation Legislation

Special Committee on Sexual Harassment and Exploitation Legislation

In February 2018, House of Deputies President Gay Clark Jennings appointed a Special Committee on Sexual Harassment and Exploitation to draft legislation for the 79th General Convention. The 47-member committee submitted 24 resolutions and one memorial and endorsed...

Nominations for Interim Bodies of General Convention Due August 20

Nominations for Interim Bodies of General Convention Due August 20

Episcopalians from across the church are invited to apply for membership on the commissions, committees, task forces, and other interim bodies created by General Convention. The application, which is open until August 20, is available online. Applicants will be asked...

Jesus is Praying for Us:  Sermon Preached at the 79th General Convention

Jesus is Praying for Us: Sermon Preached at the 79th General Convention

President Jennings preached this sermon on July 6, 2018 at the 79th General Convention of the Episcopal Church. In the Name of God. Amen. In today’s first reading, the prophet Isaiah imagines a world in which “not even fools shall go astray.” In the next ten minutes I...

Demographics of the House of Deputies at #GC79

Demographics of the House of Deputies at #GC79

The House of Deputies at the 79th General Convention in Austin comprises 852 deputies, 53 percent of whom identify as women, 46 percent of whom identify as men, and slightly less than 1 percent of whom identify as gender queer. According to the Pew Research Center,...

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