Diocese gears up for General Convention
Conversations and briefings anticipate the focal issues
By Jim Naughton
Washington Window

Episcopalians in and around the Diocese of Washington gathered last month for briefings and conversation about the issues likely to dominate the agenda of the church's General Convention, which meets June 13-21 in Columbus, Ohio.

At Virginia Theological Seminary, the Rev. Canon Rosemari Sullivan, the seminary's director of alumni affairs and church relations, led some 50 convention deputies, seminary students and visitors through an examination of the 11 resolutions drawn up by the commission charged with shaping the church's response to the Windsor Report.

Meanwhile, at St. Paul's, Rock Creek, the Rev. Frank Wade, chairman of the diocesan deputation to General Convention, and seven other deputies and alternates participated in a sparsely attended forum that focused on proposed revisions to the church's canons of discipline, but touched on other issues as well. the rest