Entangled States

Helpful article by Bishop Whalon over at Anglicans Online, of which the following is only a small excerpt: “Every three years, for at least thirty years, the media have descended upon the General Convention, fishing for tidbits that make for great headlines: ‘Episcopal Church Votes to [fill in the blank]!’ They often get it completely wrong, either because of ignorance (qualified religion journalists being even scarcer than qualified curling reporters) or malice (Episcopalians are fun […]

Jim Dela, president of Episcopal Communicators and font of many many useful resources, has done it again with this video wrap of what happened at General Convention. It’s worth the six minutes of your time.

I'm still processing what has happened at General Convention in Anaheim. I think I'll try to post something of a reflection at some point this week. Probably sooner than later. While I'm tired following Convention, I'm not as absolutely blown as I was following the conventions in 2003 and 2006. That's probably because there was so much less question about what was going to happen once we took the vote of D025 in the form […]

Those of you who know me, know that I’m not the sort of person who uses the word “prophesy” lightly. So pay attention when I tell you that we may have seen a prophet speaking to us in the halls of General Convention yesterday. And it had nothing to do with who held hands with who. Bishop Stephen Charleston explicitly asked God to grant him the mantle and voice of a prophet as he spoke […]

So now what? What’s going to happen now? Yesterday, to my surprise, the House of Bishops voted the way most of us expected them to vote going into General Convention and acted to begin a process that allows the Episcopal Church to respond to the context in which we are doing ministry. (To my surprise because I had heard from a number of bishops that they thought they would act to table the resolution that […]

So what exactly has happened here at Anaheim. Truthfully? No one is really completely sure. But some people appear certain. The Episcopal News Service had what some bishops have described as a very unfortunate headline on Monday that declared confidently that the Episcopal Church had decided to "open ordination to gay and lesbian Christians". (Or something to that effect… I believe the headline has been pulled and the story spiked.) I’m told that something close […]

Over the weekend, the work of the House of Deputies was interupted for 20 minutes when the President of the House invited a group of speakers from parts of the Anglican South to address the deputies. It was an unexpected event and Bonnie Anderson was pretty mysterious about what was going to happen when she proposed suspending the rules to allow our guests access to the floor of the House. Something like six visitors from […]

What happened yesterday in the House of Deputies? According to many, not much. According to some, full steam toward Anglican Schism. It depends who you read. A resolution was passed (D025) by wide margins in the House of Deputies that was clearly understood to be a compromise. It intends, according to the committee that wrote its final form, to do nothing more than state the truth of where we are and what are practice is […]

There’s one major change I noticed in the open committee discussion of B033 that happened yesterday on the floor of the House of Deputies. Only one of the 30 or so people who spoke even came close to arguing that same-sex relationships were fundamentaly wrong and even that person insisted on saying the behavior didn’t trump his love for his lesbian daughter. That’s different from the way the conversations were happening in 1997,2003 and 2006 […]