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Daybook -- Today is Thursday, August 3, 2006.
* 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 1785, Samuel Seabury, first American bishop and second Presiding Bishop, was recognized as bishop of Connecticut in Convocation at Middletown, CT. [Source: Lesser Feasts and Fasts] More on Samuel Seabury: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/1275_10565_ENG_HTM.htm
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Diocesan Digest
* ALBANY: Standing Committee calls on diocese to 'step back' * ALABAMA: Episcopalians help church destroyed by arson * FORT WORTH: Standing Committee claims provincial membership not required * LOUISIANA: Jericho Road housing plan gets homes for redevelopment * LOUISIANA: Church café offers free meals * NORTHERN CALIFORNIA: Bishop explains participation in request for review of San Joaquin bishop * OLYMPIA: Dean shocked, saddened by shooting * WEST TEXAS: Parish looks for 'acceptable option' to Episcopal Church membership * WESTERN LOUISIANA: Bishop explains his stance
Full report: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/3577_77051_ENG_HTM.htm
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Newsmakers
* Kesha Brennom resigns to attend Virginia Theological Seminary * Sally Weaver named executive director of Episcopal City Mission, Missouri * Jacqueline Franco joins the Church Center's Office of the Controller * James Teets appointed to Most Venerable Order of the Hospital of St. John of Jerusalem
Full story: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/3577_77052_ENG_HTM.htm
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Catalyst: "Black Bishop - E. Demby and the Struggle for Racial Equality in the Episcopal Church," from University of Illinois Press, by Michael J. Beary, 305 pages hardcover, $34.95
[Source: University of Illinois Press] -- In 1918, the Right Reverend Edward T. Demby took up the reins as Suffragan (assistant) Bishop for Colored Work in Arkansas and the Province of the Southwest. His tenure in a segregated ministry illuminates the larger American experience of segregation disguised as a social good. A gifted leader and committed Episcopalian, Demby recognized that black service institutions, such as schools, hospitals, and orphanages, would be the means to draw African Americans back to the Episcopal Church, which they had abandoned in droves after emancipation as the church of their former masters. For more than twenty years, hamstrung by white apathy, lack of funds, jurisdictional ambiguity, and the Great Depression, Demby doggedly tried to establish the credibility of a ministry that was as ill conceived as it was well intended.
Michael J. Beary skillfully narrates the shifting alliances within the Episcopal Church and shows how race was but one aspect of a more elemental struggle for power. He demonstrates how Demby's steadiness of purpose and non-confrontational manner gathered allies on both sides of the color line and how, ultimately, his judgment and the weight of his experience carried the church past its segregationist experiment. "[A]highly revealing portrait not only of Edward T. Demby but also of the church in the South in the early twentieth century." -- Gardiner H. Shattuck Jr., author of Episcopalians and Race: Civil War to Civil Rights
To order: Episcopal Books and Resources, online at http://www.episcopalbookstore.org, or call 800.903.5544.
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