Quick note as I’m finishing up packing up my “office” for the trip to Anaheim. It turns out that pretty much all the big publications that deputies will need access to on the floor can be downloaded to be stored on a computer. The Blue Book and the Bishop’s and Deputies Handbooks are online from the General Convention website. The Report of the Church Pension Group, with the additional information about the proposed resolutions to […]
So with just a few appointments on my calendar today (mostly my spiritual directees checking in for the summer) I’m starting to figure out what I need to take with me to Anaheim from my pile of General Convention material and what I can safely leave behind. For my first General Convention I pretty much took the whole pile. It’s a surprisingly large pile of information for those who haven’t been deputies. You get all […]
I just got a nice mailing from the Church Pension Fund regarding the proposed legislation that would create a single national health plan for Episcopal Church employees. As of the moment each diocese (and in some places each parish) makes their own arrangements. In some cases the diocese decides to use the health insurance plans offered by the Pension Group. That’s what we do here in Arizona. In other cases dioceses make their own arrangements […]
So, I’m just checking to see if I have my software configured properly. As annoying as it many bugs are, I still keep coming back to MacJournal to write my longer blog posts. It’s a great little program for writing while one is offline – and since there’s very little connectivity on the floor of the House of Deputies during General Convention – that’s how I’ll be writing down most of my observations. Once you […]
I quipped the other day that I’m starting to think about the General Convention in Anaheim pretty much all the time right now. The start is less than a week away as I write this, and things are heating up a bit. There are a couple of important things that I really think we’re going to need to ask ourselves, and they’re not things I’ve seen mentioned elsewhere. 1. Is it possible for the General […]
