Bishops to focus on media relations at spring meeting

From the Living Church [boldface mine]:

The spring House of Bishops’ meeting will include development of a media strategy for next summer’s Lambeth Conference of Bishops, according to Presiding Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori. Bishop Jefferts Schori briefed bishops on the agenda for the March 7-13 meeting at Camp Allen in an email message dated Jan. 10.

“With over 100 [TEC] bishops consecrated since the 1998 gathering, it is helpful to offer some historical perspective, as well as consider the practical realities of our time there,” wrote Bishop Jefferts Schori, who was not consecrated Bishop of Nevada until two years after the conclusion of the 1998 conference. “As part of preparing for Lambeth, we will also discuss communications strategies and reflect on how best to work with the media both leading up to and following the conference.”

Bishop Jefferts Schori noted that the bishops will be assisted in their Lambeth preparation by Paula Nesbitt, author of the chapter on “Reflections from Lambeth and Beyond” in the 2001 book, The Future of Religious Pluralism and Social Policy, as well as the yet-to-be-published Cape Town to Canterbury: Organizational Conflicts and Futures for the Anglican Communion in the Twenty-First Century.

Bishop Jefferts Schori also has updated the bishops with information concerning the inhibition of Bishop John-David Schofield of San Joaquin during the spring meeting. Title 4, canon 9, sec. 2, of the canons requires the Presiding Bishop “to present the matter to the House of Bishops at the next regular or special meeting of the house.

“If the house, by a majority of the whole number of bishops entitled to vote, shall give its consent, the Presiding Bishop shall depose the bishop from the ministry, and pronounce and record in the presence of two or more bishops that the bishop has been so deposed.”. . .

Read it all. That's what they're going to focus on in their meeting - Media Relations???!!!! Good grief. (Well, that and deposing Bishop Schofield.)

Guess ECUSA may have finally realized that they've lost control of the information flow and they're trying to figure out how to get it back. Either that or they figure there's not much else to talk about, huuummmm?