Diocesan Convention

One little tidbit of news from Bedford this week: St. Vincent's Cathedral in Bedford (my parish) is hosting our diocesan convention today and tomorrow. Curiously, with all the turmoil in the Anglican Communion in the last year our diocesan convention figures to be quite peaceful. After ECUSA's General Convention of August 2003 the diocese of Fort Worth held a special convention to denounce and nullify the controversial actions of GC2003, and those measures were overwhelmingly passed. And Fort Worth was the first diocese to officially join the Anglican Communion Network last spring, if memory serves. We are as close to unified in our stance regarding present events in ECUSA as any diocese in the country. So there really isn't much to argue about this week. The Rev. Kendall Harmon, canon theologian of the diocese of South Carolina and a prominent "classical Anglican" writer, is the preacher at Mass here tonight and no doubt there will be some talk about the Anglican Communion Network, the Windsor Report, and CAPA, but basically we should not be making any "news" this week here in Fort Worth. Just the normal--and vastly important--work of building up the Kingdom. Thanks be to God!