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General Convention Postponed to 2022

By Kirk Petersen
It's official -- the 2021 General Convention has been postponed, to July 7-14, 2022, still in Baltimore. This means it will end just two weeks before the twice-postponed Lambeth Conference in the UK, which gathers bishops and others from throughout the global Anglican Communion.
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Bishops Note Errors in Bishop Love Decision

By Kirk Petersen
When a Hearing Panel found Bishop William H. Love guilty of violating his vow of obedience by defying the General Convention, the decision said incorrectly that Resolution B012 meant that same-sex marriage rites had been approved as a revision to the prayer book. Two bishops who sponsored B012 set the record straight.
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Clergy-Compensation Report Is Interactive

By Kirk Petersen
Church Pension Group rolled out a new, interactive version of the annual clergy-compensation report, allowing users to drill down within a diocese to see how clergy compensation varies by gender, age, length of service. and other factors.
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Advent & Christmas Will Look Different

By Neva Rae Fox
Episcopal churches have a variety of plans for making the best of Advent and Christmas during a pandemic, including online pageants, pre-recorded services, and services with organ music but no choir. A bishop asked "how do you have Christmas without singing?"
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Drawing Near
At a Distance

By Mack Stewart
Real presence is a great mystery, whether we’re talking about the way Jesus is present in the Blessed Sacrament, or the way I find myself in the same room as someone else. Most people in the world right now are feeling deeply the strain of having this latter form of presence with other people deeply curtailed. Zoom is not sufficient for real relations to one another.
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The Mirror
of the Psalms

By Bryan Owen
Some of the psalms are ugly, angry, and vengeful -- with heaping corpses (110), burning coals falling on adversaries (140), and little ones happily dashed against the rock (137). They remind us that we religious folks are still fully human, all-too-human. And they show us that, in the name of our religion, we are fully capable of inflicting evil and suffering on others.
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RIP Billy Joe Shaver, Country Music Genius

By John Mason Lock
Billy Joe Shaver, who recently passed, was a real folk poet genius. Part of what made him so wonderful was his unflinching honesty. From contemplating suicide to problems with alcohol to the OD death of his son, it’s all there with humor and humility to boot. From a confirmed fellow-sinner, let me just say, Billy Joe, thanks for the songs for you’ve left behind you.
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