What to do?

In the past couple of weeks I have watched as the impact of the General Assembly decisions start to hit close to home. This has come up in conversations that I did not expect them to come up in, and each startled me. First off from the people that it came from and the reaction [...]

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Last Day…with hope for the future

So here we are. The last day of actual business for General Assembly. There is much still to be done. Issues over ordination standards (it just happened and I am trying to wrap my head around it), Peacemaking (calls for issues around Israel and Iraq), Social Justice (Abortion), and several other big topics for the [...]

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Hearts and Hands

If you have not figured it out from my previous posts, I have spent the past seven days at General Assembly with SFTS. I was surprised today when I got a text from Ron to come up to the Assembly floor. Where I watch the Assembly is in a classroom on the other side of [...]

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Integrity

Well, we are in the midst of full days of General Assembly. After having the commissioners delegated to different committees to deal with different issues, we are now in full swing of the assembly. Some issues have arisen that are interesting from the new revision of the Form of Government to the commending of the [...]

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General Assembly vs. Everything Else

My background in attending conferences have been mostly through Youth Specialties among several others. Those conference tended to have more than a little bit of energy in it. Whether that is through finger darts or a constant state of “one up one ship” between exhibit booths. Well, not so much here at GA. Just not anybody [...]

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