Most of you might be carving up the ole Turkey this Thursday. I won’t because I’m a vegetarian (long story).

United Methodist News Service has word of another carving, actually, more like merging, that could be approved next July.

“The new episcopal area and its one conference essentially would replace two current episcopal areas – New York West and Albany – and reduce the number of bishops in the jurisdiction from 10 to nine. The proposed date for the change is in 2010. On Oct. 6, members of the four annual conferences in Pennsylvania, New York and Vermont linked together electronically and overwhelmingly approved the resolution in a historic special session.”