Month: July 2009

Conversation actually helped…

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So far this Convention is very different from the previous two I’ve attended. Not just because there is no real recognizable presence of very angry conservative people which while noticable is not unexpected, but because for the first time I’m serving on a legislative committee that has some serious controversy on its hands. (I’m once again on the Communications Legislative committee. Much of our work is dealing with resolutions from the Standing Commission on Communications […]

Notes from the Archbishop of Canterbury’s presentation at General Convention

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These are my "unedited notes" from the session. Sorry about any typos – it's late and I'm on the run. Not a whole lot of time to proofread… Opening remarks by Bp. Greg Rickel – introducing guests, etc. Whole presentation will be on demand rebroadcast later tonight. Our calling as Christians require us to see Global Poverty as our problem. The Presiding Bishop was referring to this when she talked about the crisis of the […]

First full day of Convention – no news yet.

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Quick note on Wed. Morning. Yesterday was the longest first day of Convention that I’ve ever experienced. I suppose that’s a good thing. Last Convention – in Columbus – we effectively ran out the clock in the end by not attacking the work we had before us agressively in the beginning of Convention. By the time resolutions with any substance started making their way out of committees and on to the floor, we were well […]

A word to the world?

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Karen, Kenney and I spent last night at Disneyland. We had a blast. I finally got to visit the park for the first time in my life. I’d been reading about it since I was a child but I’ve only been out to LA a few times in my life and Disneyland never really figured in my plans before. I was watching the fireworks finale at the end, marveling at the choreography between the explosions […]

Juxtapositions

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We made it to Anaheim in more or less one piece. The most exciting part of the trip was watching the temperature drop from about 113 F as we crossed the desert between Phoenix and Los Angeles to about 84 F as we descended down to sea level and arrived in Anaheim. (For those of us who have grown accustomed to the summer heat of Phoenix, that’s a pretty big shift.) My wife and daughter […]

Heading to Anaheim via a return to Columbus

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So all the bags are packed, waiting by the door. We’re leaving this morning for the drive to Anaheim and the start of General Convention. Jamie McMahon, a friend of mine for years now, is one of the volunteer coordinators on the floor of the House of Deputies. He’s created a Facebook group for folks who are interested in watching the proceedings from that level. There are already three pictures posted of the main convention […]

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General Convention Guide in PDF format

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Looking for the General Convention Guide in good ole PDF format, suitable for reading on all sorts of devices? You can find it right here. If you’d be more interested in the Adobe AIR version… Well, you’ll find that here. It’s useful to have at any rate – it has the calendar of events and the daily legislative schedule.