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Daybook -- Today is Thursday, April 20, 2006, in Eastertide.
* Today in Prayer: Anglican Cycle of Prayer
http://www.anglicancommunion.org/acp/index.cfm * Today in History: In 1999, the Episcopal Church shared in responding to the Columbine High School shooting tragedy http://www.episcopalarchives.org/cgi-bin/ENS/ENSpress_release.pl?pr_numbe r=9 9-055
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People
Iowa's Bishop Alan Scarfe to lead run/walk across diocese [ENS] Lifelong athlete and former track coach Alan Scarfe, bishop of Iowa, will lead a 10-day, 180-mile fundraising run and walk across the diocese starting Ascension Day, May 25, and concluding on the Feast of Pentecost, June 4. The event will raise funds for local and global mission, including scholarships for international mission trips, planners say. The 180 miles will span between the Iowa diocese's two cathedral churches: the historic Trinity Cathedral in Davenport, and the liturgical center of St. Paul's Cathedral in Des Moines. The bishop has invited all the in the diocese to run and walk with him. Each day will begin with an observance of Morning Prayer and conclude with a service of Evening Prayer and praise. Further information will be posted online at www.episcopaliowa.org
Missioner for Black Ministries leads first Piney Woods Religious Symposium By Lauren Wilkes Auttonberry [ENS] On April 6, the students of the Piney Woods School, near Jackson, Mississippi, participated in the inaugural Piney Woods Religious Symposium, led by the Rev. Canon Angela S. Ifill, missioner for Black Ministries for the Episcopal Church. A previous version of this story misidentified Bishop Ted Daniels, who is the former bishop of the Virgin Islands. ENS regrets the error. [http://www.episcopalchurch.org/3577_73808_ENG_HTM.htm]
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Diocesan Digest
* ALASKA: Juneau church donates entire savings to help rebuild burned Holy Trinity * IOWA: Iowa City congregation withstands Maundy Thursday tornado * LOS ANGELES: Episcopalians join march for immigrants' rights * LOUISIANA: Church responding to New Orleans health-care crisis, bishop declares * NEW YORK: Trinity Church to present live telecast on renewal of Christian communities * OLYMPIA: Donations help secure cold-weather homeless shelter
Full digest: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/3577_73811_ENG_HTM.htm
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Catalyst: New from Cowley Publications
"I Have Called You Friends: Reflections on Reconciliation in Honor of Frank T. Griswold"; Barbara Braver, editor, 250 pages, hardcover, $24.95.
(ISBN-10: 1-56101-248-3; ISBN-13: 978-1-56101-248-0) Order online from Cowley Publications, www.cowley.org, or through Episcopal Books and Resources (after April 24), www.episcopalbookstore.org; 800.903.5544
[Source: Cowley Publications] Throughout his nine-year term as Presiding Bishop of the Episcopal Church, Frank T. Griswold has taught about reconciliation: conversation, conversion, communion-all grounded in Jesus' meeting us in all our particularities and isolation and calling us into the ever greater friendship of the Holy Spirit. It seemed natural, then, that a book of essays in honor of the Presiding Bishop at the end of his term should take reconciliation as its theme. Each of the contributors-church leaders from all over the globe-focuses in his or her own way on reconciliation and our participation in what God has already accomplished through Christ. "I Have Called You Friends" is a proper and loving gift to man who has served as the overseer of the Episcopal Church, and as a teacher and a friend. But it is more than that. It is an enterprise in theological reflection on a vital topic for citizens of the 21st century. Contributors are: Denise M. Ackermann; Curtis G. Almquist, SSJE; Michael Battle; William Danaher; Ellen F. Davis; Esther de Waal; Ian T. Douglas; Brian J. Grieves; John Haughey, SJ; Peter S. Hawkins; Martha Horne; Cynthia Briggs Kittredge; Peter James Lee; Mark A. McIntosh; Margaret R. Miles; Esther Mombo; Njongonkulu Ndungane; Luci Shaw; M. Thomas Shaw, SSJE; Jenny Te Paa; Kathy Tanner; Desmond Tutu; Louis Weil; George L. W. Werner; Rowan Williams; J. Robert Wright. - - -
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