All Blog Posts Tagged 'convention' (6)

Hi Everyone, I am at GC with the Episcopal Peace Fellowship Young Adult Presence. The Anglimergent booth is great! :) I want to let everyone know I, along with 7 other young adults, am posting nightly to a blog at http://epfyoungadults.wordpress.com - check it out for regular convention updates, tracking of peace & justice legislation, photos, and haiku! Continue

…and the legions of Episcopalians gather! For those of you who have never been to General Convention, it's quite a trip. Many decisions are made amidst much anxiety and politicking, and somehow, somewhere in there, the Spirit moves and makes herself known (whether we listen or not…) As many of you know, a few of us have gotten together to put together a chapel at Convention this time around, not to partake in the joy of legislative wrangling or the promotion of a delightful product, but rather… Continue

A couple of weeks ago, John and Stasi McAteer, Bertie Pearson, and I got together to start laying down some details for the upcoming Chapel at General Convention, with many thanks to the Every Voice Network for the generous donation of the booth space! We outlined some basic principles for what we're doing: — We are modeling the Chapel on an ideal medieval monastic practice; that is, we pray with and for anyone who comes, without concern for politics, but with a concern for context. — To that e… Continue

CONVENTION – YOUTH TALK I would like to play you a song...... The words to the song are as follows... I tried to kill the pain but only brought more I lay dying and I'm pouring crimson regret and betrayal I'm dying praying bleeding and screaming am I too lost to be saved am I too lost? my God my tourniquet return to me salvation do you remember me lost for so long will you be on the other side or will you forget me I'm dying praying bleeding and screaming am I too lost to be saved am I too… Continue

Well, I found this site through a round about web surfing session at the end of the day here at school. If you are reading this and you don't know me, thanks for looking. I am a second year, second career, middle school science teacher. I am also the youth director (along with my wife) at our parish, St. James Episcopal church in Skaneateles N.Y. My wife and I have served as youth leaders here for just over a year and we are actively involved with your in our parish, our community and our dioce… Continue

Last weekend at our diocesan convention we passed the standing rules for the election of the next bishop of Minnesota. They seemed straight forward enough – I mean, I read them and they were okay but as the conversation unfolded at my table I realized that I had not read them nearly car… Continue