[Posted by Bill Lewellis]
At General Convention: Our Bishops and the Bethlehem Deputation
(Front Row) Bishop Jack, Rick Cluett, Anne Kitch, Jan Charney and Jane Teter (Back Row) Ty Welles, Charlie Barebo, Bishop Paul, Scott Allen and Mark Laubach
Video wrapup of General Convention
Click here for an excellent 6:22 video wrapup of General Convention.
Father Gerns' simplified, illustrated and painless round-up of General Convention ... with spin
Read it here.
PB writes the church about General Convention
[Episcopal News Service] Presiding Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori has
issued a letter to the church about General Convention. "Above all
else, this Convention claimed God's mission as the heartbeat of The
Episcopal Church," Jefferts Schori says. Read it al here.
View legislation
Find General Convention 2009 legislation here.
A place that offers life
Your congregation? Read more here. A congregation that is truly being church brings people into a loving, life-giving relationship with God and others that is transformational. When
we talk about congregational renewal, we mean a renewal of the people's
ability to notice and experience God in their midst, a renewal of the
congregation's desire to partner with God in achieving God's aims for
the world.
Blackburn Cathedral offers clean bread
Worshippers at a Church of England cathedral are being offered a two-track Communion service with a separate supply of “untainted” Communion bread for those who object to its being consecrated by a woman priest. Read it here. Don't miss the paragraph that begins: "Blackburn has for decades been a seat of opposition to women’s ordination." Who makes up the "seat of opposition?" The bishop, the dean and 3% of the attending congregation.
California court ruling favors Episcopal Church and Diocese of San Joaquin
Read about the Fresno Superior Court decision here. Read the statement from the Presiding Bishop's office here.
Lack of stewardship tackled at CofE Synod
The Church Times wins the award for "Best Headline of the
Week" with a report on the stewardship debate at the recently concluded
Church of England Synod. The article headline? Stewardship: Let’s
talk about wallets, not willies. Read it all here.
Horace Boyer 1935-2009
Horace Boyer, editor of the Episcopal Hymnal, Life Every Voice and Sing, a beloved musician who loved teaching others to sing with passion, enthusiasm and excellence, has died at age 74. Read it here.
Phyllis Edwards, first woman deacon
The Rev. Phyllis Edwards, the Episcopal Church's first woman deacon,
died in Forks, WA of age-related causes. She was 92. Edwards was a
civil
rights activist who marched with Martin Luther King Jr. and fought for
the ordination of women in the Episcopal Church. She was ordained by
Bishop Pike. Read more here.
Walter Cronkite memorialized
At St. Bart's NYC. Read the Episcopal News Story here.
Marguerite Kirkpatrick Gressle
Marguerite K Gressle died July 2 at The Greens in Wilton, CT. She was 90 years old. Mrs. Gressle was the wife of the late Rt. Rev. Lloyd E. Gressle, former bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Bethlehem, PA, from 1973 to 1985. Mrs. Gressle was born in Pittsburgh, PA and was a graduate of Oberlin Conservatory of Music where she majored in music. She played piano and organ all her life, even arranging concerts for two pianos in her home in Bethlehem. She taught English in the Wilmington, Delaware public school system and after retirement to eastern Long Island, Mrs. Gressle was at various times a museum docent, a church organist, and host of a classical music program for a local radio station in Southampton. She was also an avid gardener and book club enthusiast. Mrs. Gressle is survived by her three children, Richard Gressle of Nyack NY, Katherine Gressle of Boston, MA and Mark Gressle of Wilton, CT, and seven grandchildren, Lara Macdonald, Dylan Gressle, Anna Capalbo, Emma Haritos, Juliet Gressle, Jack Gressle and Matthew Gressle. For more information, contact Mark Gressle at 203-761-1326.
Jimmy Carter writes about leaving Southern Baptists
After 60 years
of membership. Read more here.
If I had 10 billion dollars
"What I would do if somebody offered me a blank check to spend on some
project in American Catholicism," asked NCR journalist John Allen. "The more I think about it, the more my reply would be, Hire a nurse for every parish in the country. Read more here.
Bill Lewellis, Communication Minister/Editor (1986), Canon Theologian (1998)
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Be in Love. And, if necessary, change. [Bernard Lonergan]
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