The irony is delicious. TEC's General Convention has voted to give metropolitan powers to PB Katharine Jefferts Schori, thus tying a silk chord around their own [bishops] necks. Yet, here they are having fits about a Covenant that Dr. Rowan Williams, the Archbishop of Canterbury, wants in an attempt to draw us altogether in one big happy, undivided Anglican family.

The bishop dropped more morsels in this one blunt statement than all the high sounding ecclesiastical nonsense that usually emanates from these bishops' gabfests.

Then Epting exclaimed, "Wow. For the new bishops: welcome to your new role."

The property was purchased for $9.5 million. Delegates to the 2008/225th Diocesan Convention resolved to sell the multi-million dollar diocesan Camp Wapiti in Maryland. The camp has already cost the diocese $6.7 million with another $3 million needed to pay off the loan. "We need nearly $10 million," said the Diocesan Treasurer Kylius Jones. The cost to maintain it is approximately $300,000 a year. A new appraisal later said it is worth $10,800,000.

The Diocese is seeking a ruling that would see Fr. Moyer and his vestry tossed out of the Church of the Good Shepherd and replaced by a priest and vestry of similar theological convictions but still committed to staying in The Episcopal Church.