Tuesday, July 14, 2009

The House of Bishops in Action

Here's a video of the House of Bishops in action (maybe that is too strong a verb!). The 150 of us sit together at tables, with the Presiding Bishop on a platform with the officers. The audience (when we are open to the public) sits around us. When we wish to speak, we raise a card with a number of our table to be recognized by the chair. I have at my table Thom (Idaho), MacPhearson (W.Louisiana), Lee (Virginia), Barbara Harris (Mass, retired), Alexander (Atlanta). The going can be either tedious, when a hour or more is spent fussing over a sentence or two, or fast paced, as when it is hard to keep up reading the legislation that is being considered. Three more days to go!
video

4 comments:

Holly said...

you and Laura must be totally drained by this point....

Anonymous said...

Well, I suppose you have to go and sit through all the brouhaha because it is part of your job discription. I have sat through so many of these that I don't have the patience for the nit picking of the phrases, etc. It happens. Just pray for patience.

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