Understanding Robert's Rules, Part 3: Fun and Games at Churchwide Assemblies

If you have made it this far (or if you have come to this post and have no intention of reading all the rest of that), though, you might enjoy the following game.

This is, in effect, a list of things to watch out for while watching the ELCA Churchwide Assembly, but we’re calling it Bingo, because that’s traditional. And it’s annotated, because hi, have we met?

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Understanding Robert's Rules, Part 1: Whose bright idea was this, anyway?

Have you ever, say, to take a random example, watched a livestream of the plenary sessions of the ELCA Churchwide Assembly, and thought: Why are they doing things like this? Who made this stuff up?!? These rules make no sense! How can anyone remember all this?

These are all very reasonable thoughts to have.

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