The Episcopal Diocese of Atlanta followed that tradition this morning with a ceremony. But one part of the event was very untraditional: instead of a church, the priests gathered in The Temple -- Atlanta's oldest Jewish synagogue.

So how did this happen? It was the idea of Episcopal Bishop of the Diocese of Atlanta -- the Rt. Rev. Robert Wright.

The meeting included representatives of denominations and individual congregations including Anglicans (ACNA), Presbyterians (PCA, PCUSA, EPC, ECO) Methodists (UMC), and Lutherans (NALC) as well as para-church ministries. Speakers from the Family Research Council, the Center for Public Justice the Southern Baptist Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission, the Institute for Global Engagement and others conveyed the various kinds of threats Christians face.

Cook's case has also been controversial because just four years earlier she had a dramatic drunken-driving arrest, the bare bones of which top diocesan officials knew when they selected her as a candidate but which they did not share with the broader body that voted to appoint her.

Seventeen bishops and archbishops tell Anglican church investments in fossil fuel companies incompatible with a just and sustainable future

"We call for a review of our churches' investment practices with a view to supporting environmental sustainability and justice by divesting from industries involved primarily in the extraction or distribution of fossil fuels," they said.