Center Aisle June 22, 2006

Center Aisle is an opinion journal offered by the Diocese of Virginia as a gift to General Convention. We offer analysis and opinions from a variety of sources that reflect the transformational center of our church.

The middle is not the midpoint on a line between two extremes. In the life of faith, the great bulk of people are at the center, and that center is faith in the Risen Christ.
The Pastoral Address to the 210th Annual Council of the Diocese of Virginia, 2005, the Rt. Rev. Peter James Lee
  Today's Editorials
The Center Has Held: A Letter from Bishop Lee to the Diocese of Virginia
The Message I Take Back to Sudan
This is Relationship: Messy and Complicated

Previous Editorials

--- Issue 8 ---
Justice for All
So, Have We Grown?
Action of Some Clarity is Necessary

--- Issue 7 ---
It’s Not About Us
Don’t stop now
Mission is Ministry

--- Issue 6 ---
Time for Some Specificity
On Mutual Submission, Compromise & the PB Election

--- Issue 5 ---
Can We Talk?
A Date with the Methodists
One Man’s Inclusion, Another Man’s Exclusion

--- Issue 4 ---
Who’s Next?
Time and Timing
Wake Up before It Is Late

--- Issue 3 ---
Hope for our future?
A LOT more Work Needed
The Fundamentals that Unite Us

--- Issue 2 ---
The Economic Benefit of Slavery to the Episcopal Church in Virginia
Forbearance, Trust and Respect
Pension Fund Election

--- Issue 1 ---
Arms Wide Open: A Posture For Hope
Let's Grow Up Together
How Many 'R's in Windsor?

Other Stories
‘All Shall Be Well’
The Riteness of Confirmation
A Gospel Beyond Words at Convention Eucharist
Sudans of the Spirit

--- Issue 7 ---
Words Without Works = Nothing
More Than Anecdotal Knowledge: An Interview with Christians for Fair Witness on the Middle East

--- Issue 6 ---
Majoring on Trifles: An Interview with Naim Ateek

--- Issue 5 ---
Church Hears Young Adults
Here, kitty, kitty!

--- Issue 4 ---
View from Sudan

--- Issue 3 ---
The Real Future of the Church in the Communion
'You give me something I can feel'

--- Issue 2 ---
Exhibit Spotlight: Jesus for Free at Rebecca’s Keepsakes

--- Issue 1 ---
The Tipping Point


Off Center

   





Other Voices
Virginia Voices
In Virginia Voices Center Aisle will feature the diverse viewpoints of the deputation from the Diocese of Virginia on key issues facing General Convention.

Can there be too much Wisdom?

--- Issue 7 ---
Church Planting is Mission & Outreach

--- Issue 6 ---
The Long View on Women
Over trained?

--- Issue 4 ---
Liturgies of Passage: Pass some, pass on others

--- Issue 3 ---
Hungry for Good News

--- Issue 2 ---
With Independence Comes Interdependence

--- Issue 1---
Title IV: No Thanks

Online Exclusive
In Whose Name We Are Gathered
The Church Politic
Good News to Share
Choosing to focus on the meaningful


Letters from Virginia
Letters

A Letter to the Diocese of Virginia from the Deputation at Convention


Write us: centeraisle@thediocese.net

The Presiding Bishop Election
The Rt. Rev. Katharine Jefferts Schori, Bishop of Nevada, elected Presiding Bishop on 5th ballot.

Issues We're Watching
Immigration
A017


Title IV Revisions (Clergy Discipline)
Report of the Task Force on Title IV Revisions

A153


Response to the Windsor Report
The Special Committee Report

A159, A161, A162, A163, A164, A165, A166, A167, A168, A169


Investment in Palestine
A011, A012, A013, A014, A015


Slavery Apology & Future Reparations
A127


Intercommunion with Methodists
A055


Liturgical Proposals
A057, A058, A059, A060, A061, A062, A063, A064, A065, A066, A067, A068, A069, A070, A071, A072, A073, A074, A075, A076, A077, A078, A079, A080 A081


Millennium Development Goals (MDGs)
A008, A009


Other Links
www.episcopalchurch.org

www.thediocese.net

www.anglicansonline.org

www.episcopal-life.org

www.thediocese.net/resources/windsor.shtml




Center Aisle is published by the Diocese of Virginia; Publisher:Peter James Lee; Editor: Ed Jones, St. George's, Fredericksburg; Editorial Writer: The Rev. John Ohmer, St. James', Leesburg; Editorial Writer: The Rev. Lauren Stanley, Episcopal Missioner to Sudan; Staff Writer: Susan Daughtry Fawcett; Cartoonist: Mike Kerr, Diocesan Treasurer, St. Clare's, Richmond; Researcher: The Rev. Holly Antolini, St. Paul's, Richmond; Design/Production Print/Web: John Dixon, Michael Pipkin, Leo Campos; Coordinator: Patrick Getlein