• The meeting of the Subcommittee on the Ecumenical Roundtable was called to order on Friday, 12 April, The Galt House, Louisville, Kentucky, Barbara Smith-Moran and Robert Schneider chairing at different times.
  
  
• Reports were received from the Membership Secretary and the Treasurer. The Treasurer suggested a postal appeal for the payment of dues.
  
  
• The electronic newsletter, voted at the meeting last April, has been launched, with Barbara Smith-Moran as editor. Two issues are now available in the internet (Advent 2001 and Epiphany 2002). Suggestions for improved format, content and distribution were offered.
  
  
• Phina Bergeson, was elected unanimously to fill a vacant position for At-large Member on the Steering Board.
  
  
• The bylaws were amended and approved. The brochure text was corrected and reprinting was approved for distribution as before (to cathedrals and seminaries, and for meetings of the General Convention, AAAS, and other organizations).

Discussion was opened regarding suggestions about what our Church ought to be taking notice of--what the Executive Council Committee on Science, Technology and Faith ought to consider taking up for further study. The following topics were put forward:

• stewardship of creation and environmental issue, e.g., global warming
• behavioral genetics
• the court system's interpretion/use of science; justice and junk science; the reputation of scientists as witnesses
• the Precautionary Principle
• simple, non-academic theology and science for parish education, for feeding and pushing to grow
• prayers and other elements of liturgy that are both literary and scientifically informed
• scientifically sound sermon-starters
• the whole cluster of issues around disparagement of science by preachers
• resources to help people read science and not abuse it in the treatment of contemporary issues; tools rather than canned material from the media, who go for the headline and the polarization of issues
• a column in Network Newsletter and/or reviews of junk science books
• speakers bureau
• use of the Network Newsletter to respond to national and international news
• finding community on the internet; cyberpriests
• the growing trend to take your whole office with you on vacation, as phones, computers, printers get smaller and smaller
• cell phones and public manners, public display of private lives
• effects of communication technology on relationships, privacy
• the implications of technology for the church and its mission
• inwardness and egoism
• the unintended, unforeseen consequences of technology, including those distant in time and space; pastoral component