Monday, July 16, 2018

2018 General Convention: Wrap-Up

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Back home now, recovering a sense of normalcy after the hothouse environment of General Convention, and getting ready to take myself out of ...
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Friday, July 13, 2018

2018 General Convention, Day 11

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It's over. And sooner than expected. While I was at lunch with some bishop colleagues, we learned that the House of Deputies had adjourn...
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Thursday, July 12, 2018

2018 General Convention, Day 10

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General Convention was doing its part to "keep Austin weird" today. Never before in my experience in the House of Bishops has legi...
Wednesday, July 11, 2018

2018 General Convention, Day 9

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Convention has reached the point where anxiety rises about getting all the work done that's supposed to get done. Most of the committees...
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Tuesday, July 10, 2018

2018 General Convention, Day 8

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A couple of vignettes from my committee meeting this morning are illustrative of the state of things in the Episcopal Church these days: I...
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Monday, July 09, 2018

2018 General Convention, Day 7

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We've now reached that phase of convention where the big bits of legislative sausage are emerging from the committee grinder and are r...
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2018 General Convention, Day 6

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Life in the House of Bishops was pretty mundane today, so much so that we finished our agenda ahead of schedule. So I hung out in the galler...
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Sunday, July 08, 2018

2018 General Convention, Day 5

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The headline news coming out of convention today is that the House of Deputies, by a relatively narrow vote-by-orders, sent to the House of ...
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Saturday, July 07, 2018

2018 General Convention, Day 4

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It's very late and I'm very tired, so I'm just going to briefly mention one issue on which my committee spent a great deal of ti...
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Thursday, July 05, 2018

2018 General Convention, Day 3 Supplemental

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I gave testimony this evening in support of B012, which would require bishops like me to make provision for same-sex "marriage" by...
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2018 General Convention, Day 3

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Though the legislative sausage-making has barely only begun, and it's way too early to make predictions, the "buzz" is that ...
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Wednesday, July 04, 2018

2018 General Convention, Day 2

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The most intense and substantive portion of my day was devoted to the work of Committee 12: Prayer Book, Liturgy, & Music. We met from...
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Tuesday, July 03, 2018

2018 General Convention, Day 1

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I'm going to be numbering the days of our time in Austin relative to my own experience; hence this is Day 1, even though the only thi...
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Wednesday, September 27, 2017

2017 Fall House of Bishops, Day 6

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No dramatic or particularly compelling photo ops today. What you're looking at here is a fuzzy shot of the Rev. Robert Williams of the...
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Tuesday, September 26, 2017

2017 Fall House of Bishops, Day 5

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Every day during this week-long event, aware that I'm going to be blogging in the evening, I'm scouting about looking for a "...
Monday, September 25, 2017

2017 Fall House of Bishops, Day 4

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This being the Lord's Day, the morning was dedicated to worship. The visiting bishops and spouses were divided between (read: crammed ...
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Sunday, September 24, 2017

2017 Fall House of Bishops, Day 3

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Here's the lovely Lady Brenda, along with Alaska's own Bishop Mark Lattime, boarding our principal mode of transportation today...
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Saturday, September 23, 2017

2017 Fall House of Bishops, Day 2

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This is a view of the Chena River, the banks of which were once deemed "fair" by the explorer who first steamed up it. I snapped...
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Friday, September 22, 2017

2017 Fall House of Bishops, Day 1

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This is the actual airplane flown by the third Bishop of Alaska, the legendary "flying bishop" Bill Gordon, who was elected in 194...
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