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Daybook, from Episcopal News Service

May 24, 2005 - Tuesday to Note & To Read

Archivists, historians to hold June annual meeting in Hawaii

[Episcopal News Service] Historians, writers and archivists are set for
four-days of learning, networking, and exploration at the annual
conference
of the National Episcopal Historians & Archivists (NEHA) June 14-18 in
Honolulu.

Each year professional, volunteer, trained and amateur historians and
archivists gather to share information, hear papers, and learn about the
host diocese.

"So often archivist and historiographers work alone facing similar kinds
of
challenges," said the Rev. Gregory Straub, executive officer of the
General
Convention. "In times of diocese cutting back on staff and resources
this
[annual conference] is where they get support."

Straub, a member and past officer of both the Historical Society of the
Episcopal Church and the National Episcopal Historians and Archivists
organization, said many of the people who carry out this work are
volunteers. The annual conference allows them to "meet the professionals
who
are fulltime at this and have a lot of knowledge."

Conference attendees will participate in workshops on oral history,
parish
history writing, and Archives 101 and 102.

A workshop day will be held at the historic Parish of St. Clement the
"first" Episcopal Church in the then-Anglican Diocese of Honolulu. The
majority of the sessions will be held at the historic Cathedral Church
of
St. Andrew, which dates from 1867.

Conference highlights will include visits to the following:

*Iolani Palace, hosted by Stuart Ching, curator and diocesan archivist;
*Arizona Memorial and Museum at Pearl Harbor, hosted by Kendall
McCreary,
N.P.S. Historian and Member of St Andrew's Cathedral;
*Hanaiakamalama, home of Queen Emma, hosted by the "Daughters of Hawaii.

Papers on a variety of topics relating to history of the
Episcopal/Anglican
Church in Hawaii and the Pacific will be offered by presenters from
Hawaii,
Washington State, New York, Oklahoma, Florida, California, and Taiwan.

The cost of the conference is $195 per person, which includes six meals,
transportation, admissions, and other related expenses.

For more information and registration contact Professor Wilis H. A.
Moore,
adjunct professor of history for Chaminade University of Honolulu and
NEHA
conference coordinator, at 800.538.3950 (USA)/808.538.3952 (Canada and
worldwide) or e-mail willishamoore@hotmail.com.

Note: The following title is available from the Episcopal Book/Resource
Center, 815 Second Avenue, New York, NY 10017; 800.334.7626;
212.716.6118 or
http://www.episcopalbookstore.org/

To Read: PLAYING WITH FIRE: Preaching Work as Kindling Art by David J.
Schlafer (Cambridge, Massachusetts: Cowley Publications, 2004; 177
pages;
$16.95.)

>From the publisher: Offering a fresh approach to homiletics, David J.
Schlafer provides an invitation to preaching by way of metaphor.
Starting
with the fire of Scripture, and engaging in the work of preaching as
play,
Schlafer offers new ways of approaching the preaching moment. Fire is
multi-sensory and mysterious, Life nurturing and life threatening, and
the
history of preaching is a story of sacred fire sharing. Taking into
account
the preacher's call, the stages or preparation, the role of the
congregation, and the presence of the Holy Spirit in the midst of it
all, we
discover that playing with fire is a sacred act indeed.

David J. Schlafer is an Episcopal priest who has taught preaching at
Nashotah House, Seabury Western, University of the South, Virginia
Theological Seminary, and the College of Preachers. His previous books
are
"Surviving the Sermon, Your Way with God's Word", and "What Makes This
Day
Different?" Schlafer conducts seminars and workshops on homiletics in
the
United States, Canada, and England.

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