The ministry of the former Bishop of California, the Rt. Rev. Marc Hadley Andrus, was suspended on October 9 because of “a credible allegation of an inappropriate relationship with an adult.”
While approving conscience protections for the ordination and deployment processes, progressives used a series of parliamentary moves to defeat resolutions to renew the church's Task Force on Communion Across Difference and alter disciplinary canons on doctrine.
Bishops passed a series of changes to the church’s disciplinary canons, while also approving a resolution to clarify the definition of the Book of Common Prayer in the church’s Constitution.
The bishops also approved a trial use that redefines Holy Matrimony as “Christian marriage, in which two people enter into a life-long union,” rather than “the woman and the man.”
Four priests have separately told TLC that they believe they were targeted by a progressive activist seeking to drive conservatives out of the Episcopal Church.
