Monday, July 06, 2015

Oh ... this too

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In yesterday's General Convention recap, in addition to setting aside the issue of marriage, which I will deal with before long, I negle...
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Sunday, July 05, 2015

General Convention Postscript

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Back at home now, the miasma of General Convention seems surreal, like a bad dream. But I'm fairly convinced that it did actually happen...
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Saturday, July 04, 2015

The Ninth Legislative Day

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At every General Convention there's always the specter of a last minute crunch of legislation that keeps both Houses working right to th...
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Thursday, July 02, 2015

The Eighth Legislative Day

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No more committee work, so the day consisted of the "short" legislative session (11:15-1:00) and the "long" legislative ...
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Wednesday, July 01, 2015

The Seventh Legislative Day

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Committee work is finally finished. We discharged a batch of resolutions that were redundant--i.e. their substance already acted on in a pri...
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The Sixth Legislative Day

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The morning meeting of Committee 11 devoted most of its time to hearings on resolutions concerning things that have already been considered ...
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Tuesday, June 30, 2015

The Fifth Legislative Day

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We're at that point that is inevitably reached in every General Convention when there's an increasing sense of urgency in the air. R...
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Monday, June 29, 2015

The Fourth Legislative Day

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This being Sunday, the big event of the day was the celebration of the Eucharist, at which the Presiding Bishop presided and preached, and a...
Sunday, June 28, 2015

The Third Legislative Day

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Usual committee meeting from 7:30-9:00. That time slot this morning was devoted solely to hearings on three categories of resolution. The fi...
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Friday, June 26, 2015

The Second Legislative Day

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Today consisted of early morning (7:30-9:00) and mid-afternoon (2:15-4:00) committee meetings, together with a joint session of the two Hous...
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The First Legislative Day

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Our one-hour morning legislative session didn't do any actual legislating, but was devoted to organizational formalities. Back to Comm...
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Thursday, June 25, 2015

Day "0" (no legislative sessions)

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There were no actual full-house legislative sessions today, but the process sputtered toward the official starting line. My committee--Commi...
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Monday, June 01, 2015

What Confirmation sort of might be

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A relatively casual post on my Facebook account stimulated several comments, one of which challenged me to articulate what Confirmation is...
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Sunday, May 31, 2015

Heresy Hunting on Trinity Sunday

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I have been preaching regularly for nearly 30 years. Never have I made a last-minute decision to scrap a prepared homily and go a differen...
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Thursday, April 30, 2015

Cuba Libre

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The expression Cuba libre  ("free Cuba") began life, according to most accounts, as a political expletive at the time of what A...