"Episcopal TV" launches this evening

"Episcopal Life Focus," a 30 minute video multicast broadcast from The Episcopal Church Center in New York, debuts online tonight at 8 P.M. EST on Episcopal Life Online. Click here to watch the show.

Tonight's show previews next week's meeting of the House of Bishops in New Orleans. The HoB will review the state and progress of the ongoing recovery in New Orleans. They are also hosting the Archbishop of Canterbury, who in his first visit with the HoB, will lead study and prayer, and continue discussions about The Episcopal Church and The Anglican Communion.

Regarding the general outlines of the consultations beginning in New Orleans next week, The Living Church reports the following: "A senior advisor to the Archbishop of Canterbury told The Living Church it was a serious misreading of the primates’ communiqué to say that an ultimatum had been given to the House of Bishops to take certain actions by Sept. 30 or face expulsion from the Anglican Communion. The communiqué had asked for certain clarifications from the House of Bishops, he said, but did not envision a breaching of The Episcopal Church’s constitution."