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Two issues will dominate convention
(6/1/2006) Resolutions by the score will be approved by bishops and deputies at the 75th General Convention at Ohio’s Greater Columbus Convention Center, June 12-21, but no decisions will be as important as those concerning the church’s relationship with other bodies in the Anglican Communion, and its selection of a presiding bishop to provide strong leadership in the next decade.
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Economics, justice and peace
(6/1/2006) The Standing Commission on Anglican and International Peace with Justice will make the Millennium Development Goals, first presented at General Convention in 2003, a focus again. Supported by all 191 U.N. member states, the MDGs are a series of initiatives geared to eliminating the most extreme forms of poverty and hunger in the world by the year 2015.
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Deputies of color to caucus on common issues, resolutions
(6/1/2006) At a weekend conference in Columbus in April, 48 of the more than 200 deputies of color who will be at convention began discussions to identify resolutions most pertinent to the caucus.
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Budget grows 7 percent
(6/1/2006) The proposed budget for the Episcopal Church for 2007-2009 totals almost $152 million. Deputies, bishops and anyone else at General Convention will have three chances to comment and make requests before that budget is adopted.
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Convention’s younger faces
(6/1/2006) Many voices of youth and young adults in the Episcopal Church will be heard this June as the participants gather at several events: the festival; the General Convention Official Youth Presence; and E3: Educate, Experience, Empower, sponsored by the Diocese of Southern Ohio with support from the Episcopal Church’s Center’s Ministries with Young People program.
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Discipline, ministry proposals
(6/1/2006) The Standing Commission on Ministry Development proposes a new system for enforcing discipline on church leaders. Members call the current canons (rules), known as Title 4, adversarial, pointing to the use of presentment as a tool. They want to replace that with a system using mediation and fact-finding and seeking “restorative justice – reconciliation,” said Stephen Hutchinson, chancellor for the Diocese of Utah, who helped write the proposals.
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Children’s program features a Narnia theme
(6/1/2006) Activities for children at the center include using different methods to tell their faith stories, said Jeffri Harre, Episcopal Church program assistant for children’s ministries and Christian education. Children’s program participants will visit the center twice.
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Active Voice |
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An ‘Ah-ha’ in Bangkok
(6/1/2006) I have never forgotten that moment. Now, almost 40 years later, that one statement reminds me that we see what we are conditioned to see and we classify on the basis of parameters that are determined by our culture and our upbringing.
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Relieved by results
(6/1/2006) Historically, religions have promoted many kinds of prayer. Prayers of praise, thanksgiving and repentance have been highly esteemed, while intercessions of the kind done in the Benson study — appeals to God to take some action — are of lesser importance. They represent a less-respected magical wing of religion.
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Take comprehensive view
(6/1/2006) If the church cannot get along in spite of differences of opinion, how can we witness to a world that does no better? If we cannot even coexist with each other — let alone embody the exemplary love that Christ said would be the hallmark of our identity — of what use are we to the world or to ourselves?
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Message for ‘brokeback’ church
(6/1/2006) Here’s the somewhat new thing we’re trying to do at General Convention 2006. We are gathering and discerning per usual and, as a national church, attempting, I think rightly, to weigh the implications of our decision making in balance with the needs values of our international communion.
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Letters to the Editor
(6/1/2006) Episcopal Life welcomes letters and will give preference to those in response to stories. Letters should be no longer than 250 words and must include the writer’s name, address, phone number for verification. Pictures are welcome. Send to Letters, Episcopal Life , 815 Second Ave., New York, N.Y. 10017; or e-mail to letters@episcopal-life.org. All letters will be edited for brevity and clarity.
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