Well, it's been days and days since I was able to post--both timing and now computer trouble. I'm eligilble, I'm sure, for bad blogger purgatory.

Some things about convention are going well, and others not. We seem to get bogged down in small parliamentary wrangles hour after hour. I don't know if it is inexperienced leadership (though very competent), the anxiety of those who are hanging on for dear life to a church that is changing faster than the ground underneath them, or plot to hijack the convention with eating up time on frivolous motions. Perhaps a bit of the three. But 816 people is too many for a single conversation. Somehow we need some things to get us on the same page.

We're moving toward better inclusion, though. The long resolution that passed both houses really does recenter the Episcopal Church on our mission to the world; it opens the way for us to be our inclusive selves, says we want to be a part of the global family and moves us from guilt to a more adult stance of mission.

The bishops are working with something on blessings and marriage. I hope we can come farther than the status quo on that, but maybe not. The culture wars being lived out in the EC. We will know more by today. I'll try to post later.