The primary reason for the impatience, though, was the conversation that was set to ensue, the topic of B033. B033 was a resolution passed at the last minute at the 2006 General Convention implementing a moratorium on the election of non-celibate homosexual persons to the Episcopacy. Two sessions have been set aside for discussion on this matter to determine the \u201cmind of the house\u201d\u009d. A vote of some sort in which one of several actions may be taken is likely, at least in the House of Deputies. The Bishops, not known for their bravery, will probably duck the issue (a number of them are worried that if they vote their conscience it will cost them in the offering plate, sad, but true) thereby consigning the church to three more years of hand-wringing and disingenuous behavior.<\/p>\n
To begin our conversation we were instructed to find someone we don\u2019t know (bad) and have a 30 minute conversation with them (worse) about these three questions:<\/p>\n
1. What is your story with respect to B033?
\n 2. What is our story as a church with respect to B033?
\n 3. What is God calling us to do now?<\/p>\n
What\u2019s missing from the framework? How about God\u2019s story? How about God\u2019s self-revelation through Scripture? How about God\u2019s revelation through history to His church?<\/p>\n