There was such a different feel at General Convention this time around. Once again the hours were brutally long, the tasks in front of us daunting. We had the usual crew of folks who could not resist the temptation to speak to resolutions only to echo what had already been said 2 or 3 or 4 times. The plethora of “point of personal privilege”, each day producing even louder groans and eye rolling from the deputies (although a couple of them were pretty inspirational), and the incessant desire to wordsmith the good work of the committees who “perfect’ resolutions continued as always to drive me a little batty. Yet in the end much amazing work was done and done well.

Entering GC, most folks were talking about a trinity of important work – the election of a new Presiding Bishop, structure reform, and marriage. And rightly so. I will have more to say about all three in the days ahead. But I am equally, if not more excited about the real money we allocated for racial reconciliation work and evangelism.

And while our Presiding Bishop Elect, the Right Reverend Michael Curry, did, as expected, preach a moving and inspiring sermon at the closing Eucharist (watch it HERE and by the way you can watch his sermon “Crazy Christians” from GC2012 by clicking HERE – it’s a great message also), I don’t want anyone to miss what I thought was by far the most amazing sermon delivered at GC 2015. Please watch the Reverend Becca Stevens of Thistle Farms (click HERE to learn more about her amazing work there) preach the gospel so beautifully.

Her sermon is HERE.