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The 80th General Convention of the Episcopal Church—postponed a year because of COVID-19—conducted what Presiding Bishop Michael Curry had referred to during the planning process as “matters essential for the governance and good order of the church.”

Among those essential actions, the bishops and deputies approved the first reading of a constitutional change to clearly define the Book of Common Prayer and continued the church’s commitment to reckoning with its history of racism.

“We decided that we would be the last committee in the Episcopal Church to deal with this issue.”

Kim L. Coleman, rector of Trinity Episcopal Church in Arlington, Virginia, has been elected to a second three-year term as president of the Union of Black Episcopalians.

According to a UBE press release, in her first term Coleman and her leadership team not only reversed the union’s $86,000 deficit but also implemented new financial management policies to protect the group in the future and doubled the size of its membership.