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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…

[Episcopal News Service – Louisville, Kentucky] “This is a kairos moment,” Kansas Bishop Cathleen Bascom told the House of Bishops as she presented three resolutions coming out of the committee for environmental stewardship and care of creation. All three – A021, creating a Care of Creation loan program; D030, creating a Task Force on Creation…

The Rev. Steve Pankey of the Diocese of Kentucky presents resolutions from the Rules of Order Committee for votes on June 23 in the House of Deputies. Photo: David Paulsen/Episcopal News Service [Episcopal News Service – Louisville, Kentucky] The House of Deputies, in one of its first actions of the 81st General Convention on June…

[Episcopal News Service – Louisville, Kentucky] The legislative committees on Prayer Book, Liturgy & Music on June 23 recommended that General Convention adopt amended resolutions to create both alternate texts for existing authorized hymns as well as a new supplement to The Hymnal 1982. Legislative committees include parallel committees of deputies and of bishops, which,…