Center Aisle June 20, 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.

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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
Don't Stop Now

For six years, the Task Force on Disciplinary Polices and Procedures has worked diligently and faithfully to rewrite the Title IV disciplinary canons. It prayed; it listened; it developed a theology of the ministry. But its proposed rewrite of the canons (Resolution A153) proved to be wildly unpopular with this General Convention.

The Committee on Canons, in conjunction with the Task Force and other committees, tried mightily to rewrite A153, but the task proved impossible in the short time allotted here. Now Canons, recognizing the good work done by the Task Force, is recommending that the work be continued in the next triennium.

General Convention needs to follow this recommendation. More work is needed, and it cannot happen without approval for more time and more money. A153 (substitute) needs to be approved, so that the work begun by the Task Force can continue and Title IV can be revised.

 

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