“Our ministry together in the next nine years comes at a critical time for the Episcopal Church. It is not too strong to say that we’re facing an existential crisis.”
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.
Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori: “Deacons are essential to this church. They work under the radar most of the time. Almost all of them work without pay.”
