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["Matthew Davies" <mdavies@episcopalchurch.org>]

Daybook, from Episcopal News Service

March 15, 2005 - Tuesday to Note & To Read

Single Episcopalians set to gather at Kanuga Labor Day weekend

[Episcopal News Service] Kanuga Conference Center in Hendersonville,
North
Carolina will be the site of the 15th annual Solo Flight conference
September 2-5.

Solo Flight, an intergenerational conference for single adults, was
founded
to offer opportunities for those who are single in the Episcopal Church,
to
grow spiritually and fellowship and network with those who share similar
values.

Gathering under the theme "Solo Flight: the art of loving" conference
participants will focus on developing attitudes and practices that the
experience of singularity can help cultivate.

This year's keynote speaker will be the Rev. Zelda Kennedy, associate
rector
for pastoral care at All Saints, Pasadena, California.

"Solo Flight is the only on-going national gathering for singles in the
Episcopal Church," said Dr. Kay Collier McLaughlin, director of
communications and ministries with single adults for the Diocese of
Lexington and founder /national coordinator of Solo Flight. Commenting
on
the work of the conference leadership team she said "the energy for the
ministry goes far beyond the conference."

Attendees will also celebrate a Liturgy of Healing and Wholeness and
Blessing of Singularity as the central liturgical affirmation of the
weekend.

The cost of the conference, room and board is $385 per participant. For
more
information and registration please contact Dr. Kay Collier-McLaughlin
at
kcollierm@diolex.org; Charlotte Vowan at
charlotte.vowan@episcopalsingles.org or David Perkins at
DavidWPerk@aol.com

To visit the Solo Flight forum that gives single adults a place to
communicate visit http://groups.yahoo.com/group/soloflightepis

Note: The following titles are available from the Episcopal
Book/Resource
Center, 815 Second Avenue, New York, NY  10017; 800.334.7626;
http://www.episcopalbookstore.org/

To Read: WHEN MARRIAGE BREAKS UP: A Guide for Christians, by Pauline
Druiff
(Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, London, England, 2004, 111
pages, $16.00)

>From the publisher: Everyone who enters into marriage is likely to have
happy hopes for the future. Very few of us expect or wish our marriages
to
end in divorce. Today, however, the number of marriages that break up is
higher than ever, and marriages between Christians are not immune. For
Christians in particular, who have made their vows in the presence of
God,
there is also a spiritual dimension to what is happening.

Pauline Druiff is a founder member of Broken Rites, a support group for
the
divorced and separated spouses of Christian ministers.

To Read: GRIEF DREAMS: How They Help Heal Us After the Death of a Loved
One,
by T.J. Wray and Ann Back Price (Jossey-Bass, San Francisco, California,
2005, 211 pages, $19.95)

>From the publisher: The universal experience of grief dreams can help
us
heal after the death of a loved one. In this book, T.J. Wray and Ann
Back
Price show how dreams can be affirming, consoling, enlightening, and
inspiring. The authors guide readers in ways to understand and value
their
dreams, how to keep a grief dream journal, and how to use dreams as
tools
for healing.

T.J. Wray is assistant professor of religious studies at Salve Regina
University. She is the author of Surviving the Death of a Sibling:
Living
Through Grief When an Adult Brother or Sister Dies. She is the creator
of
http://www.griefdreams.com and http://www.adultsiblinggrief.com

Ann Back Price is a Jugian psychoanalyst and clinical teaching associate
in
the Department of Psychiatry and Human Behavior at Brown Medical School
in
Providence, Rhode Island.

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