Grace and peace to all who will follow General Convention on this blog! At a meeting of the diocesan deputies last week, we discussed briefly the relative merits of 1) attending all sorts of meetings, or 2) staying with one resolution or committee throughout convention. My own time at General Convention will be given over almost entirely to chairing Committee 13, “Prayer Book, Liturgy, and Music,” which is always quite, quite busy. This year, 58 resolutions have already been pre-assigned to that committee.
Again, there is great merit in being able to float from committee hearing to committee hearing and thus obtain an overview of the entire convention. However, for those of you blog readers interested in the complexities of the legislative process itself, I am listing here the five categories in which I have arranged the resolutions assigned to Committee 13. Even if you read only the titles of these resolutions, you will gain a fairly accurate flavor of the matters that arise before every committee and before the entire convention. Each matter is deeply held by at least one person or group or diocese, and those groups will be ready to speak for, or against, pertinent resolutions.
Many of these resolutions are NOT in the Blue Book. They have been filed in the last several months and weeks. The most up-to-date listing of resolutions is at the General Convention page on the Episcopal Church web site. If you sort it (rather easily done) by committee, you can then read the actual resolutions and be up-to-date. But, again, the resolutions that come out of committee will almost always be somewhat different from these pre-filed resolutions.
Enjoy!
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