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Louie & Ernest Clay-Crew
Married February 2, 1974


12/21/1974
 
8/17/2006

• Women's Ordination and the Anglican Communion by Marge Christie
• Audited Financial Statements of the Episcopal Church (a.k.a. DFMS -- The Domestic and Foreign Missionary Society)
• Anglican Consultative Council Requests for 2003-2005
• Anglican Consultative Council Expenses for 2003-2005
• Earlier years
  • Anglican Consultative Council Requests for 1999-2002
  • Survey of Lay Episcopalians regarding evangelism
  • The Survey Form
  • The results
• Louie's Index No. 8, Louie Crew's current version of his regular column in The Witness Magazine
• Films That Have Profoundly Moved Me or Changed My Life. Recommendations by Episcopalians
• Books That Changed My Life. Recommendations by various Episcopalians and/or academics
• Largest Religious Groups in the USA

The map is based on parochial reports. Click to see the data and analysis. Note: 15 Ordinaries protested consents to the Bishop of New Hampshire. 19 bishops signed a statement of dissent read in the House of Deputies by Kendall Harmon of the Diocese of South Carolina. 15 of those are ordinaries, and they oversee 12.9% of the communicants of the Episcopal Church. Their dioceses contributed $2,393,985 to the work of the Episcopal Church Center in 2000 (8.8% of the total from dioceses).
 

Click on map to connect to tallies. Note: The 62 consenting bishops oversee 66% of communicants who have a bishop w/ jurisdiction. Milwaukee, Montana, & New Jersey did not have a bishop w/ jurisdiction at the time of the vote.

Click on map to connect to tallies.


There was support for both C045 (Consents) and C051 (Blessings) even in dioceses not colored in either map above. In the House of Deputies, both issues were voted 'by orders' -- a process in which evenly divided votes count as a negative. Alabama, Central Gulf Coast, Dallas, Fond du Lac, Georgia, North Dakota, Upper South Carolina, West Texas, and West Virginia all had divided votes in at least one order on at least one of these.

Only 16 of the 100 domestic dioceses were negative by bishop, clergy and lay on both resolutions: Albany, Central Florida, Florida, Fort Worth, Northern Indiana, Pittsburgh, Quincy, Rio Grande, San Joaquin, South Carolina, Southwest Florida, Springfield, Texas, West Tennessee, Western Kansas, Western Louisiana.

Seven of the ten dioceses outside the USA were negative by bishop, clergy, and lay on both resolutions: Colombia, Dominican Republic, Ecuador Litoral, Ecuador, Haiti, Honduras, Virgin Islands.

• Pastoral Letters following up GC 2003
• Profile of the House of Bishops
• Profile of the Episcopal House of Deputies at the General Convention 2003.
• Congregation Size and Church Growth in the Episcopal Church by Dr. Kirk Hadaway, Director of Research, Episcopal Church Center
  
  Click on image to read report

• Growth/Decline in the Episcopal Church, 1993-2003
• Growth/Decline in the Episcopal Church, 1992-2002
• Growth/Decline in the Episcopal Church, 1991-2001
• Historical Statistics Regarding the Episcopal Church
• Who's counting? (Doing the numbers on membership). A 2002 article in The Christian Century
• Membership of the Anglican Communion
• Black Priests in the Episcopal Church
Completely revised in September 2002.
• Demographics of the Diocese of Newark. This report also points to census data which all dioceses can use.
• ECUSA Clergy Who Have Earned MD and DMS Degrees
• Keith Brown's take on Growth/Decline of ECUSA
• Quean Lutibelle's Book of Numbers: A statistical study of growth and decline in ECUSA; a look at whom we have not yet welcomed.
• The 271 Biggest Episcopal Churches. Revised with the data from the 2002 Episcopal Church Annual. Up 17% since the 1997 Episcopal Church Annual.
• Average Sunday Attendance in the Episcopal Church, 1991-1999 in the decade of evangelism.
  • The raw data, by diocese
  • Sorted by percent of growth/decline as a percent of general population, by state
• Mobilization and Transnational Advocacy Networking in the Episcopal Church and Anglican Communion by Ann McClenahan
• Who Will Be the 26th Presiding Bishop?
• The True Measure of a Successful Parish by The Rev. Pierre W. Whalon.
• Profile of the House of Bishops at the General Convention 2000
• Anglican Consultative Council Requests for 1999-2002

• Anglican Consultative Council Income Details for 1998
• U.S. Contributions to the Anglican Consultative Council
• The Zacchaeus Project, a major study of ECUSA sponsored by the Episcopal Church Foundation
• Charting the Episcopal Church. Graphs of ECUSA communicants, parishes, clergy, marriages, burials, and gross receipts from 1850-1997, based on data in the 1999 Episcopal Church Annual
• Episcopal Evangelism: An Oxymoron?
• Statistics Regarding Deacons in ECUSA
• Towards the Final Sprint of the Decade of Evangelism. Shows average Sunday attendance.
• Clergy Compensation in the Episcopal Church
• See more recent and official information on Clergy Compensation at the Reseach Site of the Clergy Pension Fund
• Votes by Order (HoD) and by Roll Call (HoB) at the 1997 General Convention
• The Bishop of Dallas' Misrepresentation of Liberal Stewardship
• Budgets for Interim Bodies for the Triennium, as revised 7/30/98.
• Clergy: Reports in Summer of 1998:
• Quean Lutibelle's 1998 Report on ECUSA Clergy.
See also
• The Black Experience within the Episcopal Church by Kathleen A. McAdams, MDiv Candidate Church Divinity School of the Pacific, September 1998
• Deployment of ECUSA's Single Clergy
• Women Priests in the Episcopal Church
• Lutibelle's 1998 Report on the Education of 308 Living ECUSA Bishops.
• Current bishop elections/retirements. Started on 7/2/98.
• Deputy Support for Lesbigay Issues in 1994.
• The Economics of Hunting Heretics.
• ECUSA's Only Law Ever to Address Lesbigay Persons or Issues.
• ENGLAND: DECLINE IN CHURCH MEMBERSHIP
• Episcopal Church Delegation to the WCC Assembly in Harare, December 3-14, 1998.
• Episcopal Cathedrals in the U.S.A.. Updated 6/1/98 with data from 1998 Episcopal Church Annual and the 1998 Electronic Clerical Directory.
• Halfway Through the Decade of Evangelism, 1990-1995 statistics of ECUSA communicants.
• Highway Robbery on ECUSA's Pilgrim Way.
• Members of Interim Bodies of The Episcopal Church 2006+ New on November 7, 2006!
• Members of Interim Bodies for the Triennium 2000-2003
• Members of Interim Bodies for the Triennium 1997-2000
• Quean Lutibelle's Advice to Lesbigay Aspirants for Ordination in the Episcopal Church
• Retirement patterns of living retired clergy
• Runners-Up in Recent Episcopal Elections
• The Small Church. A statistical report, diocese by diocese, on where the big (500+) and small (under 100) congregations are. "The Small Church" is the theme of the 1997 General Convention.

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