[Episcopal News Service] Katharine Jefferts Schori, bishop of the Diocese of Nevada, has been elected June 18 by the House of Bishops as the 26th Presiding Bishop of the Episcopal Church. The House of Deputies is discussing a resolution to confirm the election, as is required by church canons. ENS will post more information after that vote.

According to inside sources, the House of Deputies burst in to applause upon hearing she was the choice of the House of Bishops. -- Editor

Every morning at 9:30 a.m., there is a celebration of the Eucharist. The musical style varies. There's a different presider and a new preacher each day. (Well, I think the Presiding Bishop gets to do his thing a couple of times.)

Anyway, today Bishop Wolf presided. The focus of today is on the ministry of women. The preacher was the Very Rev'd Martha J. Horne, Dean of Virginia Theological Seminary. Music was tres modern. The musicians were a group of musicians who normally do their thing at the Sunday evening EMERGE service at St. Bart's in NYC. Think urban. Think ancient. The hymns were things like "Let all mortal flesh keep silence" but with an electronic beat.

Bishop Wolf has asked for continued prayers from Rhode Island, and elsewhere. Please pray for people here, that the work here might be filled with due deliberation, reverent compassion, and the fire of the Holy Spirit.

[Episcopal News Service] The Special Legislative Committee on the Episcopal Church and the Anglican Communion put final wording to two resolutions during a pair of committee meetings June 17. Resolutions A160: "Expression of Regret" and A163: "Pastoral Care and Delegated Episcopal Pastoral Oversight" could reach the floor of the House of Deputies June 18.

In formulating an expression of regret, the committee replaced the statement proposed by the Special Communion on the Episcopal Church and the Anglican Communication. The Special Commission had prepared the legislation following its extensive study of the Windsor Report.

Not only did the committee seek to incorporate the divergent and passionately expressed views from the June 14 open hearing, which drew more than 1,200 people, the committee also struggled to balance the divergent perspectives of its own members.

[Episcopal News Service] Revise the Book of Common Prayer and more young people might show up at General Convention, a youth contingent told members of the Prayer Book, Liturgy and Music Committee at a June 16 hearing on resolution D061. "Our prayer book is already outdated and it is hard for my generation to relate to everything in it," said a youth, identified only as Hannah, from Northern California. She gestured to seven young adults who joined her at the podium.

"Standing behind me is the future of the church," she said. "I don't think you want to lose that. Revise the prayer book and next time there might be more of us here."

The resolution asks Convention to direct the Standing Commission on Liturgy and Music to develop a pastoral plan for future prayer book revision, to be presented at the 2009 convention in Anaheim, California.

RISEN will be coming out after General Convention. This will allow us to report on what happened while the information is current.

RISEN will also be getting a makeover in the next few months! It will be transitioning to a quarterly magazine format this fall. More details soon!