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Texas “bathroom bill” dead until 2019 (update: maybe)
Update: The Texas governor does not rule out another special session. But in the AP’s analysis, the bill won’t succeed under the current makeup of the Texas house, and elections are in 2018. The Dallas...
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Executive Council struggles to fund the great commission
The Church’s Executive Council began work on the draft budget to be presented at General Convention next year at its most recent meeting last week. In this first draft, churchwide staff and the...
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Media Release: invitation to comment on preliminary draft budget
The Episcopal Church Office of Public Affairs has issued the following media release: Input, comments invited for Episcopal Church 2019-2021 triennium preliminary draft budget [November 13, 2017]...
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Rethinking our TEC budget
by George Clifford Presiding Bishop Michael Curry The Most Rev. Michael Curry has been Presiding Bishop of The Episcopal Church for less than two years. Yet, while attending the Diocese of Hawai’i’s...
View ArticleWhere do we go from here?
For a brief moment over the weekend, the secular media and the Episcopal Church social media universes melded into one. Presiding Bishop Michael Curry’s electrifying sermon, broadcast from St. George’s...
View ArticleGeneral Convention Begins in a Month
The General Convention of the Episcopal Church begins its triennial meeting in Austin, Texas on July 3, 2018. This is the 79th General Convention and the second to be held in Texas. The 1955 General...
View ArticleTEC Talks at General Convention
The General Convention of the Episcopal Church, set to begin on Tuesday, July 3, will offer new media platforms and opportunities for engagement. One of the highlights of this new strategy will be...
View ArticlePrayer service planned at detention center during General Convention
The House of Deputies released the following press release today: Prayer Service Set at Detention Center During General Convention June 21, 2018 Responding to calls from Episcopalians across the...
View ArticleEpiscopalians keep up the prayer, pressure over immigration
KGW8 in Oregon reports on a prayer service outside a federal prison housing ICE detainees this past Sunday: Sunday’s action was just the latest in a week which included lawsuits to force the government...
View Article#GC79 roundup for July 4-5
Although Episcopalians have been trickling into Austin for the last several days and legislative committee sessions have begun, today, July 5, marked the official start of the 79th General Convention...
View Article#GC79 Roundup for July 12
With General Convention’s legislative work set to end at 6:30 CST on July 13, the rush to work through more than 500 resolutions continued on Thursday. Here is a run down on some of the day’s events:...
View ArticleBishop Love warns of “major schism” over marriage equality
A long read in the TimesUnion of Albany looks at the view from the episcopal office as Bishop William Love prepares to meet with clergy this Thursday to discuss the diocese’s response to actions at...
View ArticleAccess to health care is an imperative of our Baptismal Covenant
THE MAGAZINE by Marshall Scott Regular readers at the Café will know that I am a hospital chaplain and administrator of hospital chaplains, serving in an Episcopal hospital and health system. So,...
View ArticleCurry and Jennings address the Texas “bathroom bill” and General Convention 2018
Presiding Bishop Curry and President of the House of Deputies, the Rev. Gay Clark Jennings have written to the Speaker of the Texas House of Representatives about a Senate bill to impose restrictions...
View ArticleGeneral Convention draft schedule announced
From the Public Affairs Office of the Episcopal Church: The Rev. Canon Michael Barlowe, Executive Officer of General Convention, announced the draft schedule for the 79th General Convention, available...
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A Nursery for Ambition?
This article also appears at Patheos.com by Frederick Schmidt In a report from the meeting at the House of Bishops for The Episcopal Church, Bishop Dan Martins notes that the bishops are...
View ArticleExecutive Council turns its vision towards 2018
The Episcopal News Service reflects on the recent meeting of the Executive Council of the Episcopal Church, calling it “a historic meeting … marked by relaxed conviviality.” Set against the backdrop of...
View ArticleThe Episcopal Church and abortion
The Office of Public Affairs of the Episcopal Church responded to questions raised by new laws restricting access to abortion in states such as Alabama, Missouri, and Ohio, by sending out an email last...
View ArticleGeneral Convention 2021 Alternative Planning Underway
The Presiding Bishop, Michael Curry, and President of the House of Deputies, Gay Jennings, have written to the Church with updates to the General Convention planning process, which has been...
View ArticleGeneral Convention Postponed
Per a news release from Episcopal News Service, the next General Convention, scheduled to meet in Baltimore in 2021, has been postponed for a year due to the coronavirus pandemic. “Like you, we have...
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