Draw the Circle Wide

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[Draw the Circle Wide] 22 June 2007--We sang lots of hymns. The Lutherans have a great tradition integrating music (with tunes!) and liturgy. Here is Keri Wehlander wrote lyrics to a hymn for the day, "From the Waters of Creation," next to Bishop Gordon Light is the guy who wrote both music and lyrics to "Draw the Circle Wide." We didn't sing Gordon's together with the Lutherans, but we did (for the third time, I think) later in the day. I caught these two talented people together after the service.Later we Anglicans had an evening business session, and turned back an amendment to a resolution that would have in effect have told the Diocese of New Westminster to end its practice of blessing same sex unions, by a substantial margin. But we also voted in a fairly conservative priest as Prolocutor (vice chair of the General Synod and chair of the Council of General Synod). More details on that later.