Walking With Integrity: Executive Council continues to invite response to draft Anglican Covenant

Wednesday, May 16, 2007

Executive Council continues to invite response to draft Anglican Covenant

Integrity encourages its members to make individual responses to the 14 questions in the study guide cited below and to participate in local conversations on the proposed Anglican Covenant. National Integrity will also be making a collective response.

Bishops theology committee to offer Primates' communiqué study document
By Mary Frances Schjonberg, May 15, 2007

[Episcopal News Service] Episcopalians have begun responding to questions in a study guide aimed at helping the Episcopal Church consider the draft version of a proposed Anglican Covenant.

Congregations, diocesan deputations to General Convention and individuals can all submit comments between now and the June 4 deadline.

House of Deputies President Bonnie Anderson said May 14 that some General Convention deputations have already met and formulated responses with the help of the study guide.

Responses can be e-mailed to gcsecretary@episcopalchurch.org, faxed to 212-972-9322 or mailed to Draft Anglican Covenant, The Office of the General Convention, The Episcopal Church Center, 815 Second Ave, New York, NY 10017.

Prepared by a subcommittee of the Executive Council's International Concerns Standing Committee (INC), the six-page guide in English, French and Spanish is available here. The page includes individual links to each translation, along with links to covenant-related websites.

The draft text of the proposed Covenant, along with the first report of the Anglican Communion's Covenant Design Group, in English, French and Spanish are available here.

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