In case you need to catch up on your sleep when you get home, but you need to summarize General Convention for your parish or friends, here’s my “ABCCCS Plain Language Guide to What Happened at General Convention.” A – Anglican Covenant: There were several proposals to reject the Anglican Covenant entirely and some efforts … Continue reading »
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From Today’s Issue: Convention’s Liturgies Have Offered Energy, Spirit
By the Rt. Rev. Shannon S. Johnston, Bishop of Virginia With this last issue of Center Aisle for General Convention 2012, I want to continue with a theme I noted in the first issue: fundamentals in our life and witness as a church. Specifically, I happily consider our worship throughout the days of this convention. … Continue reading »
From Today’s Issue: What If the Real Purpose of General Convention Lies Outside Its Structure?
The unanimous passage of the resolution to create a Task Force to restructure the Church may be the clearest sign yet that the real work of God takes place outside the official structures we’ve inherited. Indeed, the Holy Spirit seems to be most active and alive in what I’d call “Eldad Events” and “Medad Moments.” … Continue reading »
Church Structure: Be Servants to One Another
By the Rev. Susan E. Goff, Bishop Suffragan-Elect, Virginia Jesus said, “I am among you as one who serves.” A bishop, two priests and a homeless man were walking down the street. It sounds like the beginning of a joke. In reality, it was the beginning of an illustrative encounter – one night here in … Continue reading »
What if Screwtape Were at General Convention?
The sleep-deprived minds of Deputy Belton Zeigler, Upper South Carolina, and Center Aisle writer John Ohmer got to wondering about “The Screwtape Letters.” If there was an update for General Convention to C.S. Lewis’ famous exchange between two devils, in which the senior devil advises his nephew on how to win over a human soul, … Continue reading »
For a New Generation: Icons of Steadfast Love
My granddaughter Lily and I were having a chat several weeks ago as I was driving her to preschool. “Some families have two moms, some families have two dads, and my family has a mom and a dad,” she said. My response? “Families are wonderful.” Lily already has, in both her Presbyterian preschool and her … Continue reading »
From Today’s Issue: The Answer to Division in the Anglican Communion is Mission
By the Rt. Rev. Justin Welby, Bishop of Durham Whatever else we can say about the Anglican Communion, a sense of focus and common purpose is not something that most of us would put at the top of the list of its character at present. We seem to spend a very high proportion of our … Continue reading »
