Also: Steve Pankey Elected Deputies' VP, Summering in Place

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** Mixed Support for Communion Across Difference in Deputies
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By Kirk Petersen
While approving conscience protections for the ordination and deployment processes, progressives used a series of parliamentary moves to defeat resolutions to renew the church's Task Force on Communion Across Difference and alter disciplinary canons on doctrine. Read on ([link removed]) .


** Deputies Support Rules Changes, Nix Longer GC
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By Kirk Petersen
After nearly a year of consternation about proposals to shorten General Convention and speed up its legislative process, it turns out that while the opponents were vocal, they were very few in number. Read on ([link removed]) .


** Steve Pankey Elected Deputies' Vice President
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By Neva Rae Fox
The Rev. Steve Pankey, a Kentucky rector who was the only candidate to endorse President Julia Ayala Harris, was elected Vice President of the House of Deputies on the second ballot. Read on ([link removed]) .


** Bishops Approve $200k for Deacons
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By Lauren Anderson-Cripps
Bishops approved a $200k grant to the Association for Episcopal Deacons, part of "relational work" to help the church's 3,200 deacons know they are a valued order. Read on ([link removed]) .


** 'Youth Are the Church Now'
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By Weston Curnow
This week hundreds of young people have descended on Louisville, Kentucky, for the 81st General Convention. Here are a few of those emerging leaders. Read on ([link removed]) .


** General Convention in Photos 4
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By Asher Imtiaz
Indigenous prayer, family bonding, and a mental health break. Have a look ([link removed]) .


** C of E Evangelicals May Form Third Province
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By Mark Michael
A group of Church of England evangelicals have threatened to form a third province if General Synod allows an unprecedented three-year trial for stand-alone services of same-sex blessing. Read on ([link removed]) .


** Summering in Place
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By Michael Cover
A fourth-century bishop asks important questions about our summer ventures. "Are you merely bored or adventure-sick? When you do travel, what will be asked of you upon returning home again? How will you have traveled for others?" Read on ([link removed]) .


** The Love of the Father
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By Molly Jane Layton
"Though motherhood enriches and changes me, it is not essential to who I am... In contrast, fatherhood is essential to God the Father. The Son is eternally begotten from the Father; thus, God has never existed without this relationship. Fatherhood does not change or enrich God the Father; it is him at his core." Read on ([link removed]) .

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