Deputies President Seeks Input on Covenant

April 22, 2008

Bonnie Anderson, president of the House of Deputies, has written to all deputies to General Convention to enlist their help in preserving the three-fold form of governance under which The Episcopal Church is currently structured.

“In The Episcopal Church, the belief that God speaks uniquely through bishops, laity, priests and deacons, enables our participatory structure and allows a fullness of revelation and insight that must not be lost in this important time of discernment,” she wrote in an e-mail letter sent April 21 to deputies and first alternates. “The joint work of the House of Deputies and the House of Bishops is the institutional expression of this belief.

“It is thus crucially important that our bishops go to Lambeth with a sense of where their General Convention deputations (and their diocese) are with respect to the current state of the Anglican Covenant.” the rest