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A deputy takes to the microphone to testify during the June 24 House of Deputies afternoon legislative session. Photos: Randall Gornowich [Episcopal News Service – Louisville, Kentucky] The third full day of the 81st General Convention is underway at the Kentucky International Convention Center. Legislative committees continue to meet in the early morning hours and…

Demonstrators line up outside the ballroom where the House of Bishops was to convene its afternoon session June 24 at the Kentucky International Convention Center in Louisville. Photo: Janet Kawamoto/Episcopal News Service [Episcopal News Service – Louisville, Kentucky] Some 15 Episcopalians – lay and ordained – mostly representing the group Palestinian Anglicans and Clergy Allies…

The House of Deputies on June 24 votes down Resolution C008, which proposed setting a target of 10% for the diocesan assessments that are the largest source of revenue in the churchwide budget. Photo: David Paulsen/Episcopal News Service [Episcopal News Service – Louisville, Kentucky] The House of Deputies engaged in a deeply divided debate during…

Methodist Bishop Gregory Palmer addresses the House of Bishops June 24 after it adopted a resolution commending the goal of full communion between The Episcopal Church and the United Methodist Church. Photo: Randall Gornowich [Episcopal News Service – Louisville, Kentucky] On June 24 the House of Bishops approved the next step toward full communion between…

[Episcopal News Service – Louisville, Kentucky] The deputies’ Committee on Constitution & Canons reversed itself on June 24 and voted in favor of a key constitutional change related to the prayer book, giving the change additional momentum as it heads to the full House of Deputies for debate. Bishops and deputies are assigned to distinct,…

The Rev. Rachel Taber-Hamilton, left, and Julia Ayala Harris participate in a candidate forum June 21 for the House of Deputies June 25 presidential election. Photo: Randall Gornowich [Episcopal News Service – Louisville, Kentucky] One the eve of the House of Deputies’ presidential election, the incumbent vice president, the Rev. Rachel Taber-Hamilton, published a blog…

[Episcopal News Service – Louisville, Kentucky] The House of Deputies’ Social Justice & International Policy Committee met June 24 to discuss resolutions heard in the House of Bishops the previous day and resolutions still pending on the bishops’ legislative calendar. Committee members’ discussion focused primarily on the four of seven resolutions related to the long-standing…

Joanne Alston-Hooker (left) and Renee Escoffery-Torres, both from the Diocese of Southern Virginia, take part in the June 23 150th birthday party for the Episcopal Church Women. Photo: Melodie Woerman/Episcopal News Service [Episcopal News Service – Louisville, Kentucky] A 150th birthday party thrown by the Episcopal Church Women drew 200 people to festivities that included…

Episcopalians of African, Asiamerican, Indigenous and Latino/Hispanic heritage gathered on the opening night of the 81st General Convention, June 23, at Cathedral of the Assumption in downtown Louisville, Kentucky, for the New Community Festival hosted by The Episcopal Church’s Department of Ethnic Ministries. Photo: Wilfreddy Alexander Carmona Arias [Episcopal News Service – Louisville, Kentucky] The…

Pennsylvania Bishop Daniel Gutiérrez, chair of the Social Justice & International Policy Committee, presents his committee’s resolutions to the full House of Bishops on June 23, the 81st General Convention’s first official day. Photo: Randall A. Gornowich [Episcopal News Service – Louisville, Kentucky] After hearty debate and three amendments, the House of Bishops passed Resolution…