{"id":596,"date":"2008-04-30T11:06:48","date_gmt":"2008-04-30T11:06:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/viamedia\/2008\/04\/bishop-gene-at-rbte.html"},"modified":"2008-04-30T11:06:48","modified_gmt":"2008-04-30T11:06:48","slug":"bishop-gene-at-rbte","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/viamedia\/2008\/04\/bishop-gene-at-rbte.html","title":{"rendered":"Bishop Gene at RBTE"},"content":{"rendered":"

Starting of Book Day:
\nThere’s discussion here and there <\/a>about Episcopal Gene Robinson being invited to be present\/talk at the RBTE – the Religious Bookseller’s Trade Exhibition,<\/a> which is being described as a “Catholic” book trade show.
\nWell, sort of.\u00a0 But not really.
\nRBTE is a joint effort of publishers related to what’s called “liturgical” churches. Catholics, Episcopalians, Lutherans, mostly. And, yes, mostly Catholics. But it is not a “Catholic” group. It’s a business coalition, so to speak, which gives publishers associated with and serving these liturgical\/mainline churches a place to market their wares – as distinct from, say, CBA.
\n(Note – the Catholic Marketing Network<\/a> is another trade group, for Catholics, and formed out of dissatisfaction w\/RBTE).
\nThere are different sorts of events associated with the show, a few for everyone – all booksellers or publishers present – but more divided according to denomination.\u00a0\u00a0 Robinson’s scheduled to speak to the Episcopalians.\u00a0 It seems to me last year there was someone equally controversial scheduled (well, perhaps not equally – that would be difficult – but close). Can’t remember who it was.
\nHere’s the schedule of events<\/a>. As you can see, most of the dinners\/breakfasts\/talks are separated by denomination and those that aren’t are business-related. One of the exceptions is the final luncheon, at which the speaker is Raymond Arroyo.
\nAnd no, I’m not going – of all years. That would be an interesting scene….<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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