July 2012

From time to time we receive gifts of books, and increasingly many of those titles are duplicates of ones already in the collection here in the Diocesan Resource Center.  We simply don't have room to add most duplicate copies, nor room to add the variety of titles that, in an ideal world,  we'd like to include.  I'm pleased to be able to offer some of these titles to you, for your congregation's library or for yourself.  This is the first edition of such offering, but I anticipate that it will become a regular feature of this blog.  All of the books listed below are Read more »

We Listened; We Heard; We Acted!  So read the headlines when the 1967 General Convention in Seattle adjourned.  Producing “a series of actions unparalleled in the history of the Church,” Convention ’67 was pivotal in moving The Episcopal Church to the forefront with regard to the social, political and economic issues of the day. Read more »

The Rev. Stephen E. Moore
Clergy Deputy to General Convention Read more »

San Francisco was the setting for the 1949 General Convention.  The Presiding Bishop was the Rt. Rev. Henry K. Sherrill, the Bishop of Olympia was the Rt. Rev. Stephen Fielding Bayne, Jr.  and Dean Sprouse was elected President of the House of Deputies.

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