General Convention 2009

Main blogs to check for up-to-date news on GenCon 2009:
(I will update as I can)

Stand Firm:
TEC Denies Media Credentials for Matt Kennedy
Bonnie Anderson: Opening Remarks

TitusOneNine
Kendall Harmon: Watch the Distance Between the Two Houses

American Anglican Council
Rev. Phil Ashey: Day 1-The Presiding Bishop’s Opening Address: Confessional Christianity is a heresy

BabyBlueOnline

Pray for GC 2009: Lent and Beyond GC 09 Intercessors

The Living Church:
Presiding Bishop: ‘Idolatry’ of Individualism Causing Church Crisis
Presiding Bishop Katherine Jefferts Schori denounced as “heresy” the proposition that individual believers can find salvation through Jesus Christ.
Quiet Opening for House of Bishops
Bishop Robinson: 'You Bet We Are' the 'Gay Church'

Religious Intelligence:
Gay issues to be focus of US General Convention
Approximately 280 active and retired bishops, along with 845 lay and clerical deputies will review several hundred resolutions across a wide range of issues. However, the focus of General Convention will be on whether the Episcopal Church backs away from its 2006 pledge not to consecrate any more gay bishops or authorize public rites for same sex unions or gay marriages.

PB Schori's Opening Address
"The crisis of this moment has several parts, and like Episcopalians, particularly ones in Mississippi, they’re all related. The overarching connection in all of these crises has to do with the great Western heresy – that we can be saved as individuals, that any of use alone can be in right relationship with God. It’s caricatured in some quarters by insisting that salvation depends on reciting a specific verbal formula about Jesus. That individualist focus is a form of idolatry, for it puts me and my words in the place that only God can occupy, at the center of existence, as the ground of all being. That heresy is one reason for the theme of this Convention. Ubuntu."

The Convention Daily