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

Daybook, from Episcopal News Service

May 6, 2005, Friday Forum

Listening, learning as Anglicans

New on-line resource will reflect unfolding processes

[Episcopal News Service] - "Listening encompasses much more than words,"
writes Anglican author and interfaith leader Kay Lindahl. "Listening is
a
way of being in the world."

Such is the depth of listening to which Anglicans -- particularly those
in
Canada and the United States -- are called by the recent Windsor Report
and
Primates Communique - and as these processes unfold, a new on-line
resource
has been launched to reflect and to document the richness of this
learning.

Available at http://www.anglicanlistening.org/, these new postings will
grow
weekly under the title "The Episcopal Church: Listening and Learning as
Anglicans." On-line resources will expand to feature a variety of
materials,
including upcoming reports to the Anglican Consultative Council when
they
are released in June.

The resources will grow with the season of Pentecost, which begins May
15
with a feast day on which Christians across denominations celebrate the
gift
of God's Spirit to the Church.

Resources on-line include links to Lindahl's recent book "The Sacred Art
of
Listening" and her work as founder of the Listening Center. Lindahl is a
parishioner of Faith Episcopal Church in Laguna Niguel, California, and
a
leader in local, national and international ecumenical and interfaith
forums.

The on-line resources are organized around concepts inspired by
16th-century
English theologian Richard Hooker and titled "Listening in Scripture,"
"Listening in Reason," Listening in Tradition." A fourth section is
titled
"Listening in Communion."

As one of 38 member provinces of Anglican Communion, the U.S.-based
Episcopal Church has reaffirmed - through recent actions of its
Executive
Council and House of Bishops - its commitment to listen deeply to the
experience and understandings of fellow Anglicans around the world.
These
actions come as part of the Episcopal Church's response to the Windsor
Report and Primates' Communique.

New postings to the site will also be carried by Episcopal News Service.


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