[Episcopal Church Office of Public Affairs] The Episcopal Church task force for church structural reform has issued a statement following the group’s inaugural meeting Feb. 14-16. The following is the statement in English and French below. The Spanish version is here. At the 77th General Convention, the Holy Spirit called The Episcopal Church to reimagine [...]
Presiding Bishop’s remarks to structure task force
| February 15, 2013 1 Comment |
[Episcopal Church Office of Public Affairs] On February 14, Presiding Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori made the following remarks at the first meeting of the Task Force on Structure created by General Convention Resolution 2012-C095: Structure Task Force 14 February 2013 Maritime Center, Linthicum Heights, MD The Most Rev. Katharine Jefferts Schori Presiding Bishop and Primate [...]
General Convention 2012 Summary of Actions available
| August 10, 2012 Leave a Comment |
[Episcopal Church Office of Public Affairs] The Summary of Actions, detailing the resolutions, elections and other matters from the 77th General Convention held in July 2012, is now available in English from the Episcopal Church General Convention office here. The Summary of Actions fulfills the canonical requirement of Joint Rule 15 in the Constitution and [...]
Convention’s bold – and unifying – call to Israeli-Palestinian peace
[Episcopal News Service] As the director of the Episcopal Church’s Office of Government Relations in Washington, D.C., there is never a day in which I do not think about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Meetings with policymakers, consultations with other advocates for peace with justice (religious and secular), communication with our church in Jerusalem, and conversations with [...]