DEEP EPISCOPALIANISM
The Episcopal Organization’s Executive Council just wrapped up its Salt Lake City meeting:
Weave, weave, weave . . .
Weave us together in unity and love.
[from the Weave song attributed to Rosemary Crow]
All day long on Thursday, Oct. 20, the Executive Council gathered. Members came from Bogota in the Diocese of Colombia, from Seattle in the Diocese of Olympia, from the Standing Rock Reservation in the Diocese of North Dakota, from St. Thomas in the Diocese of the Virgin Islands, all ready for their seventh of nine meetings in this triennium. Some traveled only a little more than an hour by air while others spent 18 hours or more making connections and weathering flight delays. Steve Hutchinson of the Diocese of Utah was the only Council member able to sleep in his own bed in Salt Lake City each night as his colleagues came to meet in his home town.
Get ready because you are about to witness true Episcopal greatness.
Each was eager to greet colleagues and friends and dive into the full schedule of the meeting when it officially began on Friday morning. Council members had already become immersed in the papers and reports, budget and financial statements that have been posted to the online community known as the Extranet on a constant basis over the past month.
Not yet.
A new norm for Council requests that documents be posted fourteen days in advance to allow for translation into Spanish, the native language of several Council members; simultaneous translators are present at Council meetings to facilitate participation.
Now.
We are living into a new season of weaving our threads of interdependence together in the spirit ofubuntu – you in me and I in you, the theme of our last General Convention.
It’s like watching an Albert Pujols home run. All you can do is sit there in awe.
The Council said a bunch of other things about a bunch of other stuff(apparently, you can now add “weave” to the long list of Episcopal buzzwords). But after reading a sentence as great as that last one, why in the world would anyone want to keep going?
That’s always been the key to enjoying Episcopal writing. Never argue with a sentence like that one, attempt to interpret it or even make fun of it. Just silently bask in the glow of its spectacularly pompous and self-important meaninglessness.
You’ll thank me later.
Weave, weave, weave . . .
Weave us together in unity and love.
[from the Weave song attributed to Rosemary Crow]
All day long on Thursday, Oct. 20, the Executive Council gathered. Members came from Bogota in the Diocese of Colombia, from Seattle in the Diocese of Olympia, from the Standing Rock Reservation in the Diocese of North Dakota, from St. Thomas in the Diocese of the Virgin Islands, all ready for their seventh of nine meetings in this triennium. Some traveled only a little more than an hour by air while others spent 18 hours or more making connections and weathering flight delays. Steve Hutchinson of the Diocese of Utah was the only Council member able to sleep in his own bed in Salt Lake City each night as his colleagues came to meet in his home town.
Get ready because you are about to witness true Episcopal greatness.
Each was eager to greet colleagues and friends and dive into the full schedule of the meeting when it officially began on Friday morning. Council members had already become immersed in the papers and reports, budget and financial statements that have been posted to the online community known as the Extranet on a constant basis over the past month.
Not yet.
A new norm for Council requests that documents be posted fourteen days in advance to allow for translation into Spanish, the native language of several Council members; simultaneous translators are present at Council meetings to facilitate participation.
Now.
We are living into a new season of weaving our threads of interdependence together in the spirit ofubuntu – you in me and I in you, the theme of our last General Convention.
It’s like watching an Albert Pujols home run. All you can do is sit there in awe.
The Council said a bunch of other things about a bunch of other stuff(apparently, you can now add “weave” to the long list of Episcopal buzzwords). But after reading a sentence as great as that last one, why in the world would anyone want to keep going?
That’s always been the key to enjoying Episcopal writing. Never argue with a sentence like that one, attempt to interpret it or even make fun of it. Just silently bask in the glow of its spectacularly pompous and self-important meaninglessness.
You’ll thank me later.
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