Friday, July 10, 2009

General Convention News and Resources

The other night I had been working on a blog post that would have proven useful and informative but Blogger had other ideas...like obliterate the post Catherine has been working on for over an hour, creating hyperlinks and that sort of thing to help her local church family as well as bloggers and readers across the globe understand and experience what is taking place in Anaheim.

Well, Blogger did not save as its supposed to every so many minutes or seconds and the whole thing--yet unfinished--went poof and was no more. Imagine my chagrin and exasperation...well, that's ok if you can't but it was still there and though I grumped about it earlier today, I am ready to make another attempt using the auto post email address for my blog so that I can write the article as an email and then send it to Blogger for me edit and format for posting. Safer. Less crazy-making for me.

So we begin. Resources and news information sites that will aid and albeit the understanding and knowledge of the mystery of General Convention and what is going on there...

Official and semi-official Episcopal Church pages for news and updates:

Oregon at General Convention 2009

Integrity's Resolution Home Portal: How it's all panning out page

The Daily, a daily Convention newspaper with in-depth stories on all kinds of issues, provided by the Diocese of California. PDF versions are available here.

Episcopal bloggers, both clergy and lay, who are reporting or commenting somewhat daily from GenCon, adding a unique perspective to developments there:

Canterbury Tales from the Fringe by Bishop Gene Robinson of New Hampshire

What the Tide Brings In by The Rev. Ann Fontaine of Wyoming

Telling Secrets by The Rev Elizabeth Kaeton of New Jersey

An Inch at At Time by The Rev. Susan Russell, President of Integrity USA

My Manner of Life by Lisa Fox, writing from Jefferson City, Missouri

Preludium by The Rev Canon Mark Harris from the Diocese of Delaware

The Living Church site

IntegriTV, a video source by Integrity USA

Entangled States by The Rev. Nicholas Knisely and Friends

Walking With Integrity, homepage for Integrity USA with great coverage of votes

The Episcopal Diocese of California.

...and I am sure there are many more truly reliable blogs and sites to peruse. You can easily find more places to explore for information if you go to the blog's sidebar where the author has listed worthwhile blogs to read.

This is a tense yet exciting time for the Church. Remember to pray without ceasing as every deputy, bishop, all youth, all the baptized need our prayers for wisdom and that above all, God's will be done, in the holy and loving name of our Lord Jesus Christ...

Do I hear an AMEN?

"I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use." -- Galileo--

8 comments:

Lisa Fox said...

AMEN to your exhortation to prayer ... and to the Galileo quotation.
And thanks for pointing me to some other resources that I don't yet have on my GC blogroll.
One clarification about my blog: I'm not reporting so much as I'm offering commentary now and then. [I know you know that, but I don't want to mislead your readers about what I'm doing.]

Catherine said...

Dear Lisa, thank you. Yes I did know that your posts are more reflective commentary, so I went in and edited the intro to those blogs that are bloggers reflecting and commenting as well as those actually there participating. :-)

I did some trolling around last night to get my mind off of other things and finally pulled a post together. Glad you will find some links useful, my friend.

Lisa Fox said...

Thanks, Catherine. I just didn't want to be "flying under false colors."
I am deeply grateful for those at GC who are making time to report and blog in the midst of their long and very busy days and nights.

Catherine said...

People like Elizabeth and Ann just floor me with their energy and dedication to letting us know what is going on. I wish the Oregon bloggers would blog about more pertinent stuff from Convention, however, and take some pictures for goodness sake! My own diatribe...

I just posted a new link

http://sites.google.com/site/allthesacraments/Home/Resolutions

that tells what Resolutions are coming up and which ones have been worked on regarding LGBT issues. Feel free to post it on you blogroll, Lisa.

Catherine said...

People like Elizabeth and Ann just floor me with their energy and dedication to letting us know what is going on. I wish the Oregon bloggers would blog about more pertinent stuff from Convention, however, and take some pictures for goodness sake! My own diatribe...

I just posted a new link

http://sites.google.com/site/allthesacraments/Home/Resolutions

that tells what Resolutions are coming up and which ones have been worked on regarding LGBT issues. Feel free to post it on you blogroll, Lisa.

Lisa Fox said...

That's a good resource, Catherine, but the display is very frustrating -- at least on my laptop screen.
Thanks for the heads-up.

Jan said...

Thank you for all the links. Plus, there is Episcopalians for Global Reconciliation.

Jan said...

Catherine, thanks for the update on sites to look at.