Daily archives: Friday, July 8, 2022

This is a live blog covering the evening session of the House of Deputies that took place July 8, 2022. Having decided to take up D045–possibly moving the site of the 2024 General Convention–before taking up A001, regarding sites for the 2027 convention, the house is adjourned. The Committee on Governance and Structure supports moving…
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The internet outage that plagued the morning session of General Convention started during the livestream of convention worship, overwhelming the convention center’s Wi-Fi capacity, and causing a cascading effect that included an equipment failure and compromised Wi-Fi in both the House of Deputies and the House of Bishops. The General Convention office and the presiding…
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This is a live blog covering the afternoon session of the House of Deputies that took place July 8, 2022. The house is adjourning. Numerous members are planning to participate in a march sponsored by Bishops United Against Gun Violence that will take them near the site of a fatal shooting that occurred several blocks…
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Welcome to a General Convention like no other. The 80th convention of the Episcopal Church has acquired numerous superlatives, many of them due to the need to protect ourselves from COVID-19. This is the shortest convention, at four working days, in modern times and, at an expected 1,200 attendees, probably one of the smallest. More…
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