PB addresses joint session

The deputies yesterday rejected a measure related to the Windsor Report. Bishops here were very unhappy with the deputies, so the PB used his prerogative to call a joint session of both houses. Bishop Wolf joined the Rhode Island deputation for the session, offering her counsel from the perspective of the House of Bishops.

This morning, the PB addressed both houses and delivered a rather stern lecture to deputies, exhorting them to pass a moratorium that would please the Anglican Communion. Here is the resolution that Presiding Bishop Griswold placed before both houses.

Resolved, the House of Deputies concurring, that the 75th General Convention receive and embrace The Windsor Report's invitation to engage in a process of heaing and reconcilation; and be it further

Resolved, that this Convention therefore call upon Standing Committees and bishops with jurisdiction to exercise restraint by not consenting to the consecreation of any candidate to the episcopate whose manner of life presents a challenge to the wider church and will lead to further strains on communion.

This resolution has now been passed by the House of Bishops, and it will now be considered by the House of Deputies this afternoon. (This text is NOT official. I borrowed it from another blog, which has a full report on the joint session.)