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Daybook -- Today is Thursday, June 8, 2006, in ordinary time. The Church Calendar remembers Ephrem of Edessa, Syria, deacon (373).
* Today in Scripture: Daily Office meditation http://eds.libsyn.com * Today in Prayer: Anglican Cycle of Prayer http://www.anglicancommunion.org/acp/index.cfm * Today in History: On this day in 1958, St. Paul's Episcopal Church in Cary, North Carolina, was officially organized as a mission by Bishop Edwin A. Penick. http://www.stpaulscary.org
Note: There are five days until the 75th General Convention opens June 13 in Columbus, Ohio. For information, see "Toward Columbus" reports [http://www.episcopalchurch.org/ens] and the website of the General Convention [http://www.episcopalchurch.org/53785_ENG_HTM.htm].
- - - Newsmakers
* Requiescant: Canon Joyce Hogg and Canon Clinton R. Jones * Coleen Porcher, Mary Carr join staff at 815 * Bill Sachs resigns to pursue other ministries * Willis Jenkins to teach at Yale Divinity School
Full story: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/3577_75386_ENG_HTM.htm
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Peacemakers honored for work in Jerusalem, Columbus
Fellowship will present Sayre Awards during General Convention
The Episcopal Peace Fellowship (EPF) will give its 2006 EPF John Nevin Sayre Award to the Rev. Canon Naim Ateek, director of the Sabeel Ecumenical Liberation Theology Center in Jerusalem, and Madeline Trichel, director of the Interfaith Peace Center in Columbus, Ohio.
EPF described Ateek is "a strong and tireless proponent of faith and nonviolence."
Ateek has said, "as a Christian, I know that the way of Christ is the way of nonviolence and, therefore, I condemn all forms of violence and terrorism whether coming from the government (of Israel) or from militant (Palestinian) groups."
Full story: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/3577_75395_ENG_HTM.htm
- - - Diocesan Digest
* ALBANY: Arson-destroyed church vows to come back * CENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA: Nominees to succeed Creighton as bishop announced * NEWARK: Ascension makes Christ available to all, Griswold says * NEVADA: Church will be praying for convention * SOUTHEAST FLORIDA: Bishop gets 'raise' to bless church roof * UPPER SOUTH CAROLINA: Cathedral opens new mission and ministry center
Full digest: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/3577_75386_ENG_HTM.htm
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Catalyst: "Are You Running With Me, Jesus: Prayers by Malcolm Boyd, Fortieth Anniversary Edition," new from Cowley Publications, by Malcolm Boyd, paperback, 200 pages, $15.95.
[Note: Today, June 8, is the author's 83rd birthday; please also see book review of this title in the June issue of "Episcopal Life" newspaper.]
Cowley Publications:
http://www.cowley.org/mm5/merchant.mvc?Screen=PROD&Store_Code=01&Product _Code=2006-11-1561012750& ISBN-10: 1-56101-275-0 ISBN-13: 978-1-56101-275-6
[Source: Cowley Publications] -- In the middle of the turbulent 1960s Malcolm Boyd's "Are You Running With Me, Jesus?" appeared on the scene and broke the mold from which devotional texts had previously been made. Boyd's prayers engaged traditional Christian themes with a decidedly contemporary voice -- honest, direct, insightful -- while at the same time taking on issues of everyday concern: personal freedom, racial justice, sexuality. Billed by its original publisher as a collection of "prayers for all of us today who are finding it harder and harder to pray," this landmark book has influenced generations of Christians and seekers. This fortieth anniversary edition promises to celebrate its impact and make it available to further generations.
Praise for the prayers of Malcolm Boyd:
"At once informal and literate, these prayers are also deeply personal. . . . Their eloquence comes from the personal struggle they contain-a struggle to believe, to keep going, a spiritual contest that is agonized, courageous and not always won. . . . A very moving book." - Eliot Fremont-Smith, The New York Times "Malcolm Boyd has written a book which captures the spirit of our age and speaks to our times." - St. Louis Post-Dispatch "Boyd is a prophet for our times. All that is required of the reader is the ability to read-and the rudiments of a conscience." - Christian Century "The prayers are very personal, very modern, sometimes poetic. They talk about sex and the bomb and civil rights and the movies and all the things that bug Malcolm Boyd and the alienated generation that has adopted him as its spokesman." - Washington Post "Malcolm Boyd really can write a prayer - he is to prayer what Shakespeare is to the sonnet." - Frank Deford "This is prayer in the raw, with the last varnish gone-human life, in all its warmth and lovelessness, laid bare before God." - Bishop John A. T. Robinson, author, "Honest to God"
About the author: Malcolm Boyd was ordained as an Episcopal priest in 1955 after a successful career in advertising and television. Time magazine dubbed him "the coffeehouse priest" in the 1960s when he read his prayers accompanied by some of America's best-known musicians. Boyd has long served the cause of civil rights, commencing with a Freedom Ride in l96l. He has served parishes and college chaplaincies in Indianapolis, Colorado, Detroit, Washington D.C., and Santa Monica, California. He currently resides in Los Angeles with his life-partner of 2l years, author, editor, and therapist Mark Thompson. The author of numerous books, Boyd is now poet/writer-in-residence at the Cathedral Center of St. Paul in the Episcopal Diocese of Los Angeles.
Order online through Episcopal Books and Resources, http://www.episcopalbookstore.org; 800.903.5544.
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