Day 5 of GC81 (June 27, 2024)

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On Day 5 of GC81, we passed important Creation Care resolutions, including one proposed by the NorCal deputation to provide funding to help support The Episcopal Church’s (TEC’s) journey to net carbon neutrality by 2030 (D050), reinforcing a commitment made at GC 80 (A087 – 2022).

We passed a resolution that encourages TEC to work across theological, cultural and social differences in the Anglican Communion by participating in many of the communion’s networks: youth, family, indigenous, peace and justice, women, environment, health and community, safe church, interfaith concerns, church planting and colleges and universities. The resolutions also encourages parishes to use the Anglican Cycle of Prayer (A083), which Christ Episcopal Church Eureka has been using for several year.

At noon, the bishops marched with youth and deputies to Jefferson Square, where Presiding Bishop Elect Sean Rowe spoke and urged us to pray not instead of taking action but to pray in preparation for the hard work of dismantling gun violence.

The NorCal deputation connected and took pics with the deputation from the Diocese of Honduras, our sister diocese.

In the evening session, we authorized expansive language versions of Eucharistic Prayer C (A114) and alternative texts for the Good Friday liturgy (A115), that are less prone to supersessionist and antisemitic interpretation.

The Rev. Dr. Pamela Dolan proposed Resolution D050, which was adopted and which directs the Executive Council Budget Committee to consider a change in the three-year budget in the amount of $225,000 to pay for the additional staffing needed to carry forward the carbon neutrality commitments made at GC80.

Bishop Lloyd Emmanuel Allen of the Diocese of Honduras

Northern California deputation with the deputation of Honduras

Pauline, daughter the late Rev. Henry Getz, who served as rector of St. Paul’s San Rafael CA, where I worked as Youth Director from 2012 to 2018. Pauline, a “General Convention Legend,” was named after St. Paul.

I rose to speak in favor of the alternative texts for the Good Friday liturgy (A115), that are less prone to supersessionist and antisemitic interpretation.

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