I started this blog just about exactly six years ago as a tool to keep people up to date on what I was hearing and seeing as a first time deputy to the General Convention of the Episcopal Church. I used it again in 2006 to report on my second convention. With my third convention hard upon us, it would be a shame not to go back to the same discipline of writing up my […]
There’s a wonderful essay posted by Bishop Whalon on his reflections regarding the proposed Anglican Covenant. It’s motivated in part by wanting to have something for the Anglican Consultative Council which is meeting this month, but it’s driven (it seems to me) by his recent close reading of a book by Prof. Norman Doe on the Covenant process. Bishop Whalon’s essay really deserves to be read in full. Here’s just a taste: “The large majority […]
Tobias Haller and I have been having a conversation on the HoB/D email list. (I was reelected to General Convention from a new diocese this weekend, and I’m feeling like I have the right to participate in the discussions again.) In the course of the notes back and forth, Tobias described a quality of our polity which he saw as fractal in nature: “We are at a point where the integrity of Anglicanism as a […]
The Lead on Episcopal Cafe has the story: “A response from Lambeth offices to the discussions around the Bishop Howe emails: ‘It should be understood that the Archbishop’s response to Bishop Howe was neither a new policy statement nor a roadmap for the future but a plain response to a very urgent and particular question about clergy in traditionalist dioceses in TEC who want to leave TEC for other jurisdictions, a response reiterating a basic […]
This video is making the rounds today: It’s from the same Anthropology professor who pointed out what was making Web 2.0 different than Web 1.0. I serve on the Standing Commission on Episcopal Church Communications – and part of our brief as a commission is to think through how this sort of technological innovation will change things for the Church. Wanna help me out? What do think the implications will be?
A letter written from the Archbishop of Canterbury to the Bishop of Central Florida has been released to the public. You can find the text of the letter here. There’s some real confusion about the implications of the letter. From what I’ve read on blogs and websites, and in some private conversation, I think the Living Church’s sense of how to read the Archbishop’s words in this context is most likely the correct one: “In […]
News from the Synod in Montreal: “At its annual synod or general meeting, held 19 October 2007, the Anglican clergy and laity of the Diocese of Montreal voted in favour of a motion requesting ‘that the Bishop grant permission for clergy, whose conscience permits, to bless duly solemnized and registered civil marriages, including marriages between same-sex couples, where at least one party is baptized; and that the Bishop authorize an appropriate rite and make regulations […]
Matthew Davies, the editor of Episcopal Life online has written a wonderful editorial on what he’s hearing as he travels around the Episcopal Church and the Anglican Communion: “Ask the average Anglican to name the most important aspects of his or her religion and you will not be treated to a rundown of legislation, litigation, formal reports or public statements. You will hear stories of relationship, partnership, tradition and mission. The articles and perspectives prevalent […]
Bishop Paul Marshall of the Diocese of Bethlehem included thoughts about the challenges that confront Anglicans today in his address to his Diocesan Convention. (I note with strong agreement, that he prefaced his remarks by talking about the signs of life and spirit that he has found among the people of his diocese – and the vital work that they are undertaking in partnership with Anglican christians in Sudan.) From Bishop Marshall’s address, and on […]
Jan Nunley over on Episcope found and posted an article from an African newspaper talking about an evolving situation in the Anglican Province of Central Africa: “The Anglican Province of Central Africa has initiated moves to expel controversial bishop of the capital, Nolbert Kunonga, after he withdrew the Harare diocese from the province alleging that it had failed to censure bishops sympathetic towards homosexuality. Kunonga, a staunch supporter of the ruling Zanu PF government, wrote […]
