ENS: Executive Council committee offers draft covenant study guide
International Concerns subcommittee hopes to elicit comments for report
By Mary Frances Schjonberg,
April 16, 2007

[Episcopal News Service] A study guide aimed at helping the Episcopal Church respond to the draft version of a proposed Anglican Covenant is now available.

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 website.

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 also available here.

Sandra McPhee, INC's chair, said she and the subcommittee hope the guide will assist Episcopalians in the process of studying this "new idea" of an Anglican Covenant.

"We felt it was important that people have some point-by-point things to discuss," she said.

McPhee said the subcommittee aimed to develop a neutral guide. "We're trying to get genuine responses and not ask leading questions," she said. the rest