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Category: Events
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Some North Carolinians taking care of business in Anaheim: When it all gets to be a bit too much there’s Barnabas with his human, Mike. Every morning Mike offers people heading into the convention center an opportunity to give the big pooch a pat and scratch behind the ears. As the sign says, “it’s therapeutic.”…
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Episcopalians attending General Convention linked arms with hotel workers July 14 to march to the gates of Disneyland to demand economic justice for 2,300 Disney employees protesting a planned hike in the cost of their health insurance.
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Here is a statement from the Church, issued today, July 15, about proposed budget cuts: The Program, Budget and Finance (PB&F) Committee of The Episcopal Church today presented a budget to the General Convention that proposes a $23 million reduction in the 2010-2012 triennial. “This is a very difficult day,” said Pan Adams-McCaslin, chair of…
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Budget results are starting to trickle in. A big win for the Millennium Development Goals. The .7% has been returned as a line item. The recommendation of the bishops that the MDGs be returned as a line item and upped to 1%, while a wonderful gesture, was never going to happen. I’m just grateful the…
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On Tuesday, the national UTO Committee brought their grant recommendations to the floor of the ECW plenary for a vote of adoption. The delegates voted unanimously in favor of the recommendations.
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Thought you’d find the text of the following resolution interesting. (The 77th General Convention will take place in 2012). Resolved, that the Standing Commission on Liturgy and Music, in consultation with the House of Bishops Theology Committee, collect and develop theological resources and liturgies of blessing for same-gender holy unions, to be presented to the…
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The bishops have voted to open “any ordained ministry” to gay men and lesbians. This effectively counters the moratorium on ordaining gay bishops that the church passed at the last General Convention. The resolution was written in a nuanced way, however. It allows dioceses to consider gay candidates to the episcopacy, but does not mandate…
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The board of the national Episcopal Women’s History Project, meeting in Anaheim, has elected three new board members, including Lynn Hoke, the ECW of NC’s archivist and historian. Susan Johnson of the Diocese of West Texas, is president of EWHP, one of three affiliated Episcopal women’s organizations represented at the ECW Triennial. (The other two…
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You never know who you’ll run into at General Convention.
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Eighteen representatives of the official “youth presence” at General Convention visited the ECW plenary to thank Episcopal Church Women for their support of youth and campus ministries in many dioceses and parishes, to share their dreams and eloquently advocate for their priorities as young Episcopalians: increased youth involvement, evangelism, outreach and human rights.