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URCH Bishop Katharme• Jefferts Schon • Finish the music planning for one liturgical year . .. The 49 th Episcopal Musician's Handbook Lectionary Year B NOW through November 30, 2006 NEW: Suggestions from VOICES FOUND for Sundays and major feasts and begin another . .. Special Anniversary Edition The 50 th Episcopal Musician's Handbook Lectionary Year C December 3, 2006, through November 30, 2007 NEW ITEMS: "On Composing Hymns," an essay by David Ashley White, Two hymns composed by Dr. White included for royalty-free use, and a repertoire for Compline. $26.00 each (Regular shipping of 4-6-week delivery included in above prices. Orders outside the U.S., and orders needed sooner than the regular shipping/delivery time , please call, email us at [email protected], or order through our website at www.livingchurch.org. Orders are prepaid and no refunds.) Order your copies TODAY! 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THIS WEEK A packed room at the Columbus Convention Center for a June 14 hearing on Windsor Report resolutions . illrk Batr photo NEWS - 6 BishopsOppose 10 ResignedBishops Gay MarriageBan ear Lossof Vote 8 RCLMeasure Adopted 11 Spreadingthe Gospelof Bono OTHERDEPARTMENTS OPINION 20 Sunday's Readings 15 Editor's Column Shaiing the Love People & Places 16 Editorials 'The Episcopal Church' 1 7 Reader's Viewpoint Telling Jews About Jesus BY ROBERT WARRE RO 1EY 18 Letters The Blame Goes ... lll!Y9.2006·Tl lf l !VINGCI IURCII 3 NevadaBisho p Chosento Preside A spontaneous whoop of joy at 3:30 p.m., June 18 greeted the news in the House of Deputies that the Rt. Rev. Katharin e Jefferts Schori , Bishop of Nevada, had been chosen on the fifth ballot to be the next Presiding Bishop of The Episcopal Chur ch. The announcement was submitted for con firmation to the House of Deputies of General Convention by the co-chair of the Committee on the Consecration of Bishops, Matthew Chew of Arizona. Following the Eucharist at the con vention the House of Bishops went into a closed session to choose a successor to Presiding Bishop Frank Griswold. On the fifth ballot , Bishop Jefferts Schori received 95 out of 188 votes cast. The Rt. Rev. Henry N. Parsley , Jr., Bishop of Alabama, was the closest challenger, receiving 82 votes. The other candidates were the Rt. Rev. Neil Alexander, Bishop of Atlanta; the Rt. Rev. Edwin F. Gulick, Jr., Bishop of Ken tucky; the Rt. Rev. Stacy Sauls, Bishop of Lexington; the Rt. Rev. Charles E. Jenkins III, Bishop of Louisiana; and the Rt. Rev. Francisco Duque-Gomez, Bishop of Colombia. Consecrated in 2001 Bishop Jefferts Schori, 52, was conse crated Bishop of Nevada Feb. 24, 2001. The Diocese of evada consists of some 6,000 members in 35 congregations. Her service includes membership on the Special Commission on the Episcopal Church and the Anglican Communion (the precursor group to the Special flick Bate photo Committee meeting at General Conven Bishop Jefferts Schori addresses the House of Deputies after her June 18 election. tion), the board of tmstees of Church Divinity School of the Pacific, the Bishop Duque Gomez, rose to speak in to ordained orders, and more than half CREDO Advisory Board, the House of support of confirmation). of the 38 provin ces in the Anglican Bishops' peer coaching program, and The overwhe lming number of Communion, including the Church of the Board for Church Deployment. At deputies who spoke during tl1e confir England, do not ordain women to the the time of her election as Bishop of mation process urged approva l of episcopate. Nevada, Bishop Jefferts Schori was Bishop Jefferts Schori, but at least two After about 45 minutes of testimony assistant rector at the Church of the deputies said that having a woman as by deputies, a motion was successfully Good Samaritan, Corvallis, Ore. p1imate would pose theological conflict made to end debate and vote on confir During debate in the House of for some Episcopalians as well as the mation. In a vote by orders , deputies Deputies prior to tl1e vote on her con rest of the Anglican Conummion. Three approved her confirmation 93-15 in the firmation, Blanca Lucia Echeveny, a lay dioceses of the Episcopal Church do lay order and 94-14in the clergy order. deputy from Colombia and the wife of not believe that God has called women Steve Waring 4 Tl I [ LIVI G Cl IUl,C I I · IU LY 9. 2006 Primateof MexicoOffers an Apology The Most Rev. Carlos Toucl1e Porter , provinc e, we have had to expeiience a rebirth. We don't Primate of the Anglican Church of Mex blan1e people who have stopp ed giving. I am here to let [Epis ico and Bishop of the Diocese of Mex copalians] know that we want to work to regain tl1eir trust. ico, is attending his first General People need to realize that those who did these things are no Convention of The Episcopal Church as longer allowed to function." St eve Wa1ing Archbishop a fon11er Episcopalian. He was a clergy Touche Porter deputy to a previous General Conven A longerversion of this articleis onlineat www.livingchurch.org (Hirk &HP photo) tion when the Church in Mexico was still a missionary district of The Episco pal Church. This year as a member of the College of Bishops, Archbishop Touche Porter still has eat and voice as his colleagues in the House of Bishops debate the form of apology they offer to the rest of the Anglican Conu11union for failing to consult adequately before elevating an openly homosexual person to be Bishop Coadjutor of ew Hampshire. Archbishop Touche Porter also has an apology he would like to offer on behalf of Anglicans in Mexico. He was a priest in 2002 when THELMNG CH URCH revealed that two members of the Col lege of Bishops in the Church of Mexico ractive, practical, were suspected of conducting the busi and brimming ness of their dioceses primarily to with fascinating enrich themselves and their fanillies. stories, this handy guide "At first I was angry," he told TLC, combines informed de, "because I was certain that it was true . We had been heaiing rumors for a long scriptions of more than time. After the anger, I thought about 130 popular saints with the dan1age that had been done to our fascinating images from Church. I knew all of us would be both high and low art, blamed." A significant portion of the estin1ated including such modest loss of nearly $2 million came from media as prayer cards funds given by The Episcopal Church to and playing cards, coats the Church in Mexico as part of a of arms, commercial covenant agreement that established it signs and the like. as an autonomous province of the Anglican Communion. Although tem An invaluable field guide porarily frozen, the distribution of those for everyone, even the funds has resw11ed, albeit with much stricter oversight. What has not most seasoned "saint resumed , according to Archbishop spotter." Toucl1e Porter, are the small gifts from individual Episcopalians and the per- onal visits from parishes and church ISBN 0-8028-3249-0 • 296 pages • paperback • $20.00 youth groups which were so important ~!PT~J. .,_~~~..c!L~ ~-..• ' . ,-9....,\\:....n':~- ..:!:lll'J'1...... -~ ~~ • to helping Anglicans in Mexico over come a sense of isolation. "Our good name has been stained ," At your bookstore, 6058 I"'WM. B. EERDMANS or call 800-253-7521 - PUBLISHING Co. Archbishop Touche Porter said quietly, I l www.eerdmans.com 255 JEFFERSON AVE. S,F_ / GRAND RAPIDS, Ml 49503 looking down at his hands. "As a JUL) 9.100c, · T H E LIV ING CHLJRCI I 5 BishopsOppose Gay Marriage Ban The House of Bishops endorsed a ing the promotion of civil and consti of same-sex marriages without having resolution opposing a constitutional tutional prote ctions for gays and les laid a proper theological and ecclesial amendment banning gay marriage dur bians. "I hope it might encourage us foundation . ing its June 16 afternoon session at the to support " the full inclusion of gays After a voice vote and show of hands 75th General Convention in Columbus , and lesbi ans into the life of the failed to give a clear outcome , the Ohio. Traditionalists called the vote a church ," he said . an1endment failed, 67 to 76. No debate "back-door " endorsement of gay mar The Rt. Rev. C. Fitzsimons Allison, was held. riage - a proposition denied by gay retired Bishop of South Carolina , pro The Bishop of the American Convo and lesbian activists who argue the lan posed changing "gay and lesbian per cation of Churches in Europ e, the Rt. guage speaks only to the church 's con sons as children of God" to "gay and Rev. Pierre Whalon, endors ed the reso cern for equal prote ction for all people lesbian believers as children of God." lution, stating that in Europ e "there was under law. Bishop Allison said the change was strict provision between civil maniages Proposed by the Standing Committee necessary "so as to be in accord with and religious marriages ," and urged the on Social and Urban Affairs, Resolution scripture." church to begin the conversation on A095 sought to reaffirm the church 's After the Allison amendment failed adopting the European model , separat "support of gay and lesbian persons as on a voice vote, the Rt.