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Daybook -- Today is Thursday, March 1, 2007, in Lent. The Church calendar remembers David, Bishop of Menevia, Wales, c. 544
* Today in Scripture: Daily Office meditation: http://www.forwardmovement.org/todaysreading.cfm * Today in Prayer: Anglican Cycle of Prayer: http://www.anglicancommunion.org/acp/index.cfm * Today in History: On this day in 1977, Dr. Anne Harrison joined the Episcopal Church Center staff as Women's Ministries Coordinator. http://www.episcopalarchives.org/cgi-bin/ENS/ENSpress_release.pl?pr_numbe r=77052
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Diocesan Digest
A round-up of news from Episcopal diocese since February 22:
CENTRAL ECUADOR: Convention approves resolution recognizing Presiding Bishop's 'prophetic ministry' http://www.episcopalchurch.org/3577_82852_ENG_HTM.htm
CONNECTICUT: Two nominees added to suffragan slate http://www.episcopalchurch.org/3577_82779_ENG_HTM.htm
EAST CAROLINA: Convention contemplates its life together and mission to the world http://www.episcopalchurch.org/3577_82780_ENG_HTM.htm
PENNSYLVANIA: Historic Christ Church awarded two preservation grants http://www.episcopalchurch.org/3577_82845_ENG_HTM.htm
Province II announces new electronic newsletter http://www.episcopalchurch.org/3577_82851_ENG_HTM.htm
SOUTHERN VIRGINIA: Council urged to look to the future http://www.episcopalchurch.org/3577_82778_ENG_HTM.htm
WEST TENNESSEE: Anniversary celebration continues at convention http://www.episcopalchurch.org/3577_82781_ENG_HTM.htm
More Diocesan news: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/3577_19507_ENG_HTM.htm
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People
A round up of People news since February 22:
Ruth-Ann Collins named staff officer for Children's Ministries and Christian Education http://www.episcopalchurch.org/3577_82861_ENG_HTM.htm
James B. Lemler featured during Lent on 'Day 1' http://www.episcopalchurch.org/3577_82862_ENG_HTM.htm
More People news: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/3577_78001_ENG_HTM.htm
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Catalyst: "Rosa Parks" from Penguin Group, by Douglas Brinkley, 246 pages, paperback, c. 2006, $19.95
[Source: Penguin Group] Rosa Parks, an African American seamstress in 1955 Alabama, had no idea she was changing history when, work-weary, she refused to surrender her seat to a white passenger on a segregated bus. Today, she is immortalized for the defiance that sent her to jail and triggered a bus boycott that catapulted Martin Luther King Jr. into the national spotlight. Who was she, before and after her historic act, and how did that act sound the death knell for Jim Crow?
Historian Douglas Brinkley, whose "vigorous language" and "marvelous portraits" (Stephen Ambrose) have made him an acclaimed author and a media favorite, brings mid-century America alive in this brilliant examination of a celebrated heroine in the context of her life and tumultuous times. Here in Rosa Parks are the quiet dignity, hope, courage, and humor that have made this 20th-century everywoman a living legend -- an eye-opener of a book for students of history, politics, the black experience, and human nature.
To order: Episcopal Books and Resources, online at http://www.episcopalbookstore.org or call 800-903-5544.
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