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Deputy News videographer Katie Forsyth sat down with some church leaders to talk #MeToo, hearing their stories, and reflecting on what we might do as Episcopalians to grow from this movement. Participants included Deputy Julia Ayala Harris of Oklahoma, Deputy Fredrica Harris Thompsett of Massachusetts, seminarian AnnaMarie Hoos, Deputy Anne E. Kitch of Bethlehem, Deputy Sophie Kitch-Peck of Bethlehem, Deputy Alexizendria Link of…
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In the Episcopal Church, the people are represented by two separate and equal groups: the lawyers, who writ the canons, and the not-lawyers, who attempt to decipher them. This…is their report. DUN DUN. Welcome to the Official Blue Book report of the Standing Commission on Structure, Governance, Constitution, and Canons, or as I lovingly dubbed…
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Andrés Gonzalez-Bonillas is a rising high school senior from St. Matthew’s Episcopal Church, Chandler, in the Diocese of Arizona is the preacher today at the 10:30 Holy Eucharist. He sat down to talk about this experiences in the Episcopal Church and his outlook on creative expression with Rebecca Watts of Deputy News, and also…
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While much attention at this General Convention has focused on the possibility of revising the 1979 Book of Common Prayer, other resolutions related to liturgical revision are working their way through Committee 12, the legislative committee on Prayer Book, Liturgy and Music. Resolution A064 proposes to authorize the Book of Occasional Services 2018, while Resolution…
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In the crush of legislation, some worthy proposals get overlooked. Deputy News asked several deputies and alternate deputies to tell us what potentially low-profile initiatives they hope don’t get lost at this General Convention. Crystal Plummer, a lay deputy from the Diocese of Chicago is the diocese’s interim director of networking. She writes: At General…
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Miguel Escobar, director of Anglican studies at EDS@Union, hosts the fourth nightly #GC79 podcast. Guests: Ariana Gonzalez-Bonillas is a deputy from the Diocese of Arizona, consultant for this year’s Official Youth Presence, and recent graduate of Wellesley College. The Rev. Dr. Ruth Meyers is an alternate deputy from the Diocese of California and dean of…
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The House of Deputies today approved a resolution “to undertake comprehensive revision” of the Book of Common Prayer 1979. The matter now moves to the House of Bishops. The vote on Resolution A068 was held by orders. The lay order approved the resolution 69-26-15. The vote in the clergy order was 63-30-17. The vote came…
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At first glance, Resolution A060 looks like the kind of resolution that wouldn’t excite much interest among even the most committed church geeks. What possible excitement could ensue from a proposal to have a task force study the church’s pension system? Plenty, as it turns out. The resolution is the result of three years of…
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In 1910 the General Convention acted to create the Joint Commission on the Support of the Clergy to study the feasibility of a pension system, and, four years later, through other acts of Convention, the Church Pension Fund (CPF) was incorporated in the State of New York. At the time, under the encouragement of Bishop…
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The Church Pension Fund (CPF) exists to support the clergy and lay employees of the Episcopal Church in their calling to spread the gospel. For more than 100 years, our relationship with General Convention has been critical to fulfilling that purpose. CPF was created in 1913 by an act of General Convention. Around that time,…
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Miguel Escobar, director of Anglican studies at EDS@Union, hosts the third nightly #GC79 podcast. Guests: The Rev. Dr. Kelly Brown Douglas, dean of EDS@Union, Canon Theologian at Washington National Cathedral, a member of the House of Bishops Theological Commission and the House of Deputies Special Committee on Sexual Harassment and Exploitation. Dr. Sandra Montes is Spanish language…
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In the spring of my sophomore year of high school, my friends and I sat in the back corner of our pre-calculus math class during what we thought was just a lockdown drill. “There was supposed to be one tomorrow,” we all thought. “They must be doing it early since everyone found out.” As the…
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