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General Convention Report
The Episcopal News, Diocese of Los Angeles
Reporting from Salt Lake City, Utah
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[Episcopal News Service - Salt Lake City] The General Convention has approved two resolutions making major changes to the structure of The Episcopal Church.
The House of Bishops sent a strong and clear message July 2 that divestment from companies and corporations engaged in certain business related to the State of Israel is not in the best interests of The Episcopal Church, its partners in the Holy Land, interreligious relations, and the lives of Palestinians on the ground.
[Statement text] "The 78th General Convention of The Episcopal Church, in passing Resolutions A036 and A054, has made a significant change in the Church's understanding of Christian marriage. As bishops of the Church, we must dissent from these actions." [Statement text] "We the House of Bishops of The Episcopal Church wish to express our love and appreciation to our colleagues who identify as Communion Partners and those bishops who have affinity with the Communion Partners' position as stated in their "Communion Partners Salt Lake City Statement." Our time together in Salt Lake City, in conversation and in prayer, has demonstrated how profoundly the love of God in Jesus binds us together and empowers us for service to God's mission."
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People at General Convention
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 Is this how deputies
and bishops are feeling right about now?
Deputies and bishops at General Convention may be feeling upside down and more than a bit dizzy as they head into the last day of legislative sessions -- but really, this is just a sculpture just down the street from the Salt Palace convention center, in front of Salt Lake City's Museum of Contemporary Art.
 Utah governor
addresses convention
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Today at General Convention
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On the schedule for Friday, July 3:
- Closing Eucharist: Presiding Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori, celebrant. Presiding Bishop-elect Michael Curry, preacher. (8:30 a.m. MDT, 7:30 p.m. PDT. The service will be live-streamed on the Media Hub.)
- Legislative Sessions, closing no later than 6:30 p.m.
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The U.S.-based Episcopal Church and the Episcopal Church of Cuba took a step toward closer relations during the 78th General Convention, meeting here June 25-July 3. Convention also passed a resolution calling for the U.S. government to lift its economic embargo against Cuba.
"There is a single, eternal, and glorious Word whom we worship here today: the Word of God made flesh who dwelt among us, died on the cross of shame, and rose victorious," the Rev. Colin Mathewson said in his sermon July 2 to the 78th General Convention of The Episcopal Church. "Jesus' life, death, and resurrection form the basis of a story that has changed each of us in this room."
The fierce thunder of taiko drums reminded worshipers at the July 1 Eucharist of the intensity of the life and witness of the late Rev. Hiram Hisanori Kano, who transformed his imprisonment in World War II internment camps into a mission field.
More General Convention-related stories from Episcopal News Service may be found here.
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The Report will be emailed each day from the 78th meeting of General Convention in Salt Lake City, Utah, June 25 - July 3.
Photos, except as noted, by Janet Kawamoto.
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Janet Kawamoto, editor
The Rev. Pat McCaughan, correspondent
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