Check it out.

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It occurs to us in the busyness of life the past few weeks, we elves have been seriously remiss in not posting the links to the alternate (backup blogs -- perhaps soon to be permanent blogs) of many of the Anglican sites hosted by Classical Anglican Net which suffered serious hacking about 2 weeks ago, and which is still offline as a result.

Mike Daley of CaNNet is still working to restore the blog databases and partitions, and hopes to have the blogs backup as soon as possible, perhaps within a few days. But in the meantime, please note these links. Our apologies for the delay in posting these!

Brad Drell: http://descant.wordpress.com/

Confessing Reader: http://confessingreader.wordpress.com/

Lent & Beyond: http://anglicanprayer.wordpress.com/

Rather Not Blog: http://idrathernotsay123.wordpress.com/

Surrounded (Diocese of San Joaquin): http://sanjoaquin.wordpress.com/

As for the archives of the old Titusonenine site, most posts can be accessed either by using the Google Cache feature, or by using an internet archive site like "The Wayback Machine." Feel free to e-mail the elves if you need help finding something or accessing something on the old blog.

And please keep Mike Daley in prayer as he works to restore the CaNNet blogs. Even if all or most of the blogs make the switch to new sites, having access to their archives is important. Thanks.

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Anglican TV and Stand Firm will be live streaming the San Joaquin Diocesan Convention.

Here's the Anglican TV thread.

Here's the Stand Firm thread:

If you watch and appreciate the availability of the livestream, please consider contributing to Kevin Kallsen's expenses. Go to the Anglican TV site and look for the "Chip In" link in the upper right corner. Kevin is currently raising money to cover Mark Lawrence's consecration, but we understand he is still short in terms of having his expenses for San Joaquin covered.

--elfgirl

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Hi all. As we noted in the comments on one of the threads below, we were having trouble accessing the Living Church's website earlier today. We've since learned via e-mail that those problems were due to a site upgrade. We've just now been able to get into the new site and it looks terrific.

Here's the news page link:
http://www.livingchurch.org/site/news/

Here's a section for online exclusive features:
http://www.livingchurch.org/site/news/exclusives/

We're still having trouble accessing the TLC home page: http://www.livingchurch.org/, which is taking us to the TLC's hosting company instead. It may just take awhile for the site upgrade to "propagate" throughout the web, or we might need to clear out our browser cache.

Be sure to update your bookmarks for the new site. (The news page link is new, for instance). It looks terrific! Congrats and thanks to the TLC team.

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Give him a look.

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Two graphs to illustrate the post below re: TEC Domestic Dioceses' decline in membership and ASA since 2000:



Note: the scale on the Y-axes above (verticle axes) is compressed. They do not begin at 0. Thus the decline appears much steeper than if the starting point at the bottom was 0. See the comments for my justification for preparing it this way. The increased rate of decline from 2003 onwards is real however, as is shown in the following graph re: percentage change. (Which has an accurate Y-scale).



Update: Oops. The Y axis on the second graph should be labeled "% change", not "members". Sorry we didn't catch that before we posted it.

Update 2: By request we've uploaded our original Excel spreadsheet with the relevant data from which we created the graphs. You can find it here: http://kendallharmon.net/t19/media/TEC_2000-2006.xls

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San Diego Anglicans blog has set up an open thread re: the wildfires in Southern California, as well as a photo gallery.

If you need to know how various churches in the area have been affected, this is the go to site. As of yesterday evening, there were reports of up to 513,000 people evacuated, 500 homes lost in San Diego County, 800 homes destroyed outside the county.

Please keep the situation in prayer.

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We're finally getting back to working on diocesan convention news and links after first posting on that topic a week and a half ago. We'll focus this post on dioceses that have already held their convention in the past few weeks. We'll do a separate post for links and news, resolutions etc. for upcoming conventions.

Alaska: The Living Church has an article posted here re: resolutions regarding election of a new diocesan bishop as well as a suffragan.

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Bethlehem
The Diocesan Blog has a helpful post with news and lots of links re: the convention this weekend. Five resolutions were approved:

resolution_on_the_budget
resolution_on_salary_shedule
resolution_on_office_of_assistant_bishop
resolution_on_evangelism

*NOTEABLE* resolution_on_participation_of_all_baptized_members This is posted as a separate blog entry above, you can comment on this there

Bishop Marshall's address is here.

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Colorado: Bishop O'Neill's address is here. Here's an interesting excerpt on the challenges to go "deeper":

But like the gospel we heard tonight, there is that twist—that midpoint in the story in which Jesus calls those who would follow him to go even deeper.

What might that mean for us?

For Peter, it was about entering into deeper and deeper relationship with Jesus, and as a consequence being called to enter into deeper and deeper relationship with others. With each successive step in following Jesus, Peter was called out of himself to cross the lines of division and separation that so characterized his culture and society. He was challenged, by Jesus, to sit at table and break bread with those whom others would exclude. He was invited, by God, to embrace those who were radically different from him. He did so not without his own very real inner struggle and conflict. But he did so. He did so faithfully. He did so in obedience to Jesus. And in so doing, he gave the world a glimpse of the restored humanity that God desires for all humankind. For Peter, “the deep” was about giving of himself more generously than he ever thought possible. It was about learning increasingly to surrender himself, to abandon himself, to give himself up
completely, even to point of death, which is, if you think about it, the ultimate act of generosity.

There it is, the deep water—the challenge to live out of a posture of deep generosity, freely giving of ourselves in love to Love; and, as a consequence, the
challenge to enter ever more deeply into relationship with those around us whoever they may be. Here in Colorado the call to live generously has some very real challenges both practically and relationally.

Tomorrow, you will be presented with an operating budget—funding that you all set aside from your own congregational operating funds to support one another, to support the wider mission of the Church, through the Office of the Bishop. You will see that that proposed budget reflects the key mission initiatives that we have set before us, and you will see too that that budget is balanced. That would seem to be good and well. But I have to tell you it really isn’t. The funding for redeveloping the lives of our congregations is minimal. The resources to plant new congregations are extraordinarily limited. We have again reduced staffing in the Office of the Bishop. The money budgeted to support the summer camp program that has grown significantly over the past two summers will not cover the actual costs for this summer’s program. Funding set aside for the College and Young Adult Committee, which began its work in August, has been removed. Planned increases in funding to support children’s ministries in the diocese (training events, resources, resource development, and so on), is just not there. This
balanced budget is fiscally responsible, but it is, at the same time, missionally inadequate.

There were no resolutions. ENS has an article about the Colorado Convention, here.

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Whew. It's time to gear up for the annual fall Diocesan Conventions spree. Forty-three conventions scheduled for October!!

We elves probably won't have time to do the exhaustive coverage we attempted at least for part of the convention season last fall. We need readers' help. PRIOR to your diocesan convention, please send us any important info on resolutions or budgets for your diocese. And then AFTER convention, send us info on what resolutions passed, your bishops' convention address, etc. We're counting on you!

Here are the list of October Conventions:

10/4/2007 - 10/7/2007 Alaska (St. Matthew's Church - Fairbanks, AK)
10/4/2007 - 10/7/2007 Wyoming (Jackson, WY)
10/5/2007 - 10/6/2007 Colorado (St. John's Cathedral - Denver, CO)
10/5/2007 - 10/7/2007 Montana (Copper King Hotel - Butte, MT)
10/5/2007 - 10/6/2007 North Dakota (Kelly Inn - Bismarck, ND)
10/5/2007 - 10/7/2007 South Dakota (Oacoma, SD)

10/12/2007 - 10/13/2007 Bethlehem (Cathedral Church of the Nativity - Bethlehem, PA)
10/12/2007 - 10/14/2007 Eastern Oregon (St. Andrew's Episcopal Church - Prineville, OR)
10/12/2007 - 10/13/2007 Milwaukee (Italian Community Center - Milwaukee, WI)
10/12/2007 - 10/14/2007 Nevada (South Point Hotel - Las Vegas, NV)
10/12/2007 - 10/14/2007 Northern Michigan
10/12/2007 - 10/13/2007 Western Louisiana (Holiday Inn Convention Centre Hotel - Alexandria, LA)

10/18/2007 - 10/21/2007 Churches in Europe (American Cathedral of the Holy Trinity in Paris.)
10/19/2007 - 10/20/2007 Arizona (Sheraton Crescent Hotel, Phoenix)
10/19/2007 - 10/20/2007 California
10/19/2007 - 10/20/2007 Connecticut (Christ Church Cathedral - Hartford, CT)
10/19/2007 - 10/20/2007 Dallas
10/19/2007 - 10/20/2007 Eastern Michigan (St. John’s Church - Saginaw, MI)
10/19/2007 - 10/20/2007 Fond Du Lac (Liberty Hall - Appleton, WI)
10/19/2007 - 10/20/2007 Kansas (Kansas Expocentre - Topeka, KS)
10/19/2007 - 10/20/2007 Quincy (Christ Church - Moline, IL)
10/19/2007 - 10/20/2007 Rio Grande (Cathedral Church of St. John - Albuquerque, NM)
10/19/2007 - 10/21/2007 Spokane (Termplin’s Red Lion Hotel on the River - Post Falls, ID)
10/19/2007 - 10/20/2007 Western Kansas (Garden City, KS)
10/20/2007 - 10/20/2007 Southwest Florida (Venice Community Center - Venice, FL)
10/21/2007 - 10/21/2007 Puerto Rico (Coliseo Juan “Pachin” Vicens - Ponce, Santa Eucaristía - Puerto Rico)

10/26/2007 - 10/27/2007 Hawaii (St. Andrew's Cathedral & Prince Kuhio Hoten - Honolulu, HI)
10/26/2007 - 10/28/2007 Idaho (Idaho Falls, ID)
10/26/2007 - 10/28/2007 Indianapolis (Holiday Inn Conference Center - Columbus, IN)
10/26/2007 - 10/27/2007 Maine (Bangor Civic Center - Bangor, ME)
10/26/2007 - 10/27/2007 Michigan (Holiday Inn South - Lansing, MI)
10/26/2007 - 10/27/2007 Minnesota (St. Paul River Centre - St. Paul, MN)
10/26/2007 - 10/27/2007 Nebraska (corrected per comment below)
10/26/2007 - 10/28/2007 Northwest Texas (San Angelo, TX)
10/26/2007 - 10/27/2007 Rhode Island (The Biltmore Hotel - Providence, RI)
10/26/2007 - 10/27/2007 San Joaquin
10/26/2007 - 10/27/2007 Upper South Carolina (Christ Church - Greenville, SC)
10/26/2007 - 10/27/2007 Utah (Cathedral Church of St. Mark - Salt Lake City, UT)
10/26/2007 - 10/27/2007 Western Massachusetts (Springfield Sheraton - Springfield, MA)
10/26/2007 - 10/27/2007 Western New York
10/27/2007 - 10/27/2007 El Camino Real (Sherwood Hall - Salinas, CA)
10/27/2007 - 10/27/2007 Northern Indiana
10/27/2007 - 10/28/2007 Springfield (Trinity - Jacksonville, IL)

You can find a list of all conventions here: by date, by diocese.

All the T19 diocesan convention posts will be under this category link

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Update: We're putting together an Excel Spreadsheet. It will have any links we find to the diocesan convention website, proposed resolutions, and then post-convention materials (final resolutions, bishops' speech) if/when they are posted online. Here's the link.

We'll try to update it regularly. (So far we just have a few links for this weekend's conventions. But we will add more over the weekend)

Filed under: * Anglican - Episcopal • Episcopal Church (TEC) • TEC Diocesan Conventions • * Resources & Links

Anglican TV has now posted the video of the press conference from yesterday afternoon in Pittsburgh. Here's the link.

Filed under: * Anglican - Episcopal • - Anglican: Primary Source • -- Statements & Letters: Bishops • Common Cause Partnership • * Resources & Links • Resources: Audio-Visual

Please do not assume we have seen them and pass them along. Full text by email preferred, url is o.k. if you are in a hurry--thanks.

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Read it all.

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Kevin Kallsen of Anglican TV is in Pittburgh now. He plans a live stream of the Common Cause Bishops Council tonight at 8 pm Eastern (11:00 GMT / midnight London)

Here's the post where the stream from Pittsburgh will be broadcast.

You can read about Kevin's schedule and broadcast plans here.

NOW scheduled for approx 8 p.m. eastern (not 7) since there is no wifi to enable him to broadcast live:

Update: There is no internet in the William Penn Ballroom. There is free internet in the lobby. Sssoooo, I will tape the opening address of Bishop Duncan and then run up to the lobby and broadcast it. I would imagine it would be sometime around 8:00pm.

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Part 1 of press conference video is posted at Baby Blue: http://babybluecafe.blogspot.com/2007/09/press-conference-for-day-six-house-of.html

Matt's Live Blog text is here: http://www.standfirminfaith.com/index.php/site/article/6265/

more links as we get them

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Filed under: * Anglican - Episcopal • - Anglican: Latest News • Episcopal Church (TEC) • TEC Bishops • Sept07 HoB Meeting • * Resources & Links

For those of you like this poor elf who missed Anglican TV's live stream of today's press conference with Rowan Williams, despair not. Baby Blue has come to the rescue. Here's the link: http://babybluecafe.blogspot.com/2007/09/press-conference-with-archbishop-of.html

Filed under: * Anglican - Episcopal • - Anglican: Latest News • - Anglican: Primary Source • -- Statements & Letters: Primates • Abp of Canterbury Rowan Williams • Episcopal Church (TEC) • TEC Bishops • Sept07 HoB Meeting • TEC Conflicts • Lambeth 2008 • Sexuality Debate (in Anglican Communion) • * Resources & Links • Resources: Audio-Visual

Go to this page and then scroll down to bottom left for the video / audio section.
http://www.episcopalchurch.org/89878_ENG_HTM.htm

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ENS / Episcopal Life Online has a video by Louisiana Bishop Charles Jenkins posted. You can watch that here.

Update: Haven't watched it all yet..., juggling too much else. But, the part we watched was all about Katrina relief.

ENS has also posted a picture gallery from this morning's Eucharist here.

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Anglican TV is going to be streaming today's press conference which should begin at about 4:30 Central / 5:30 Eastern / 22:30 London

http://www.anglicantv.org/blog/index.cfm/2007/9/20/New-Orleans-HOB-Thursday-Press-Conference

UPDATE: We've added links to live blogs of the press conf. by BabyBlue and Matt Kennedy in the comments
UPDATE 2: Link to Integrity's take on the press conf. is now also in the comments, and now the link to Rachel Zoll's AP story.

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Here's a roundup of folks who are providing live coverage of the HoB meetings in New Orleans.

NOTE: I've un-stickied two previously sticky posts. Here are the links:

-- Monday mornings' "Catch Up Reading" Links by Greg G. is here.
-- Kendall's Proposal is here:

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An audio mp3 file--listen to it all.

link is fixed

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The Rev'd Dr. Leander Harding has moved his blog. Here is the new address:
http://www.leanderharding.com/blog/

Please update your bookmarks! We've updated the link on the T19 sidebar.

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Watch it all courtesy of Anglican TV

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As many of our readers know, Kevin Kallsen of Anglican TV is in Africa to record the consecrations of Bill Murdoch and Bill Atwood in Kenya (today) and John Guernsey in Uganda (Sunday Sept. 2).

His one-hour long broadcast (of a portion of the 4 hour service) from Nairobi today will begin at 1 p.m. Eastern. You'll find it at Anglican TV.

If you appreciate Kevin's service in filming these events, please consider donating to help Kevin's internet costs.

Filed under: * Anglican - Episcopal • Anglican Provinces • Anglican Church of Kenya • * Resources & Links • Resources: Audio-Visual

Kevin Kallsen of Anglican TV is making Apb. Venables' bible teachings from last week's Network Council meetings available on DVD. Proceeds will support Anglican TV's ministry. Details here.

Or if you're not in the market for a DVD, but want to support Anglican TV, read here to find out about Kevin's funding needs for a possible trip to Africa to record the consecrations of bishops-elect Atwood and Guernsey.

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For the record, you can now access all three of the talks by Southern Cone Primate Greg Venables at last week's Network Council meetings. They are available both as videos, and MP3 audio files.

Here's the link for all 3 Bible Studies.

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Stand Firm has posted the first two of five clips of a video interview Sarah Hey conducted with Kendall back in April. This elf has watched them both. Sarah's got some great questions and it's a wonderful way to learn more about our favorite canon theologian and blog convener!

Here are the first two links. We'll of course bump this up when the other videos in the series are posted. Each video is about 13-15 minutes.

Video: Kendall Harmon on Leadership, Part 1
Video: Kendall Harmon on Leadership, Part 2

Update: Parts 3 and 4 are now posted:

Part 3
Part 4

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Kevin Kallsen of Anglican TV is making progress getting the audio and videos from this week's Network Council meetings online. You can find those he's posted and those still yet to come here: http://www.anglicantv.org/blog/index.cfm/ACN-Meeting-2007


Here are a few of the highlights and links:

ACN Council Meeting 2007 Moderator's Address
Bishop Duncan's Monday Morning address to the gathering

ACN Council Meeting 2007 PB Venables Bible Study (#1)
++Venables' first teaching to the gathering, Monday afternoon (Abraham, Genesis 12)

ACN 2007 Final Press Conference
Tuesday afternoon's final press conference. Participants: +Duncan, +Ackerman, +Iker, +Sutton, Thompson+ (Dean of Western Convocation), ++Venables

There's more there, and more still to be posted so check it out.
And if these are a blessing to you, leave a tip for Kevin and Anglican TV if you're able!

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Kevin Kallsen has posted a nice set of pictures from the Network Council meetings.
http://www.anglicantv.org/blog/index.cfm/2007/7/31/Thank-you-Fort-Worth-and-many-others

Video stream archives can be found here: http://ustream.tv/channel/acn-council-meeting-2007
See: "Past Clips" -- recommended: last night's press conference (2nd clip from left); Venables III (3rd clip from left).

Imagine the better quality MP3 recordings will be posted at Anglican TV within a few days.

Note, yesterday's "Open Thread" on the Network Council has a lot of info and links in its comment thread, including identification of the bishops in the press conference, etc. http://www.kendallharmon.net/t19/index.php/t19/article/4758


UPDATE: We're playing "name that bishop" -- need some help with 2-3 bishops. Input welcome
http://www.kendallharmon.net/t19/index.php/t19/article/4780/#88194

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Bishops Duncan, Iker and Ackerman discuss the Archbishop of Canterbury, women's ordination, accession to TEC's constitution, and the balance of autonomy and catholicity in the Episcopal Church. (This post originated at Stand Firm).

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