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Daybook -- Today is Friday, March 2, 2007, in Lent (Ember Day). The Church calendar remembers Chad, Bishop of Lichfield (623-672).
* 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 1985, Frank T. Griswold, III, was consecrated as bishop coadjutor of the Episcopal Diocese of Chicago. http://www.episcopalarchives.org/cgi-bin/ENS/ENSpress_release.pl?pr_numbe r=85057
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Diocesan Digest
PITTSBURGH: House of Deputies President urges Episcopalians to answer Gospel's call http://www.episcopalchurch.org/3577_82968_ENG_HTM.htm
More Diocesan news: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/3577_19507_ENG_HTM.htm
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People
Michael Battle to serve as chaplain for Congressional Pilgrimage to Alabama March 2-4 http://www.episcopalchurch.org/3577_82963_ENG_HTM.htm
More People news: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/3577_78001_ENG_HTM.htm
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Multimedia: Archbishop of Cape Town to lead international conference on MDGs
Towards Effective Anglican Mission (TEAM) set for March 7-14 in Boksburg, South Africa
[ENS] The strategies embodied in the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) will be the focus of a March 7-14 international conference titled "Towards Effective Anglican Mission" (TEAM) at the Birchwood Conference Centre in Boksburg, Gauteng, South Africa.
Hosted by the Anglican Church in Southern Africa, under the leadership of Archbishop Njongonkulu Ndungane, the conference will bring together key representatives from the worldwide Anglican Communion, including as keynote speaker the Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr. Rowan Williams.
In an interview with the Episcopal News Service, Ndungane speaks about the importance of the TEAM conference in focusing the Anglican Communion on the issues represented by the MDGs, in particular the fight against global poverty and HIV/AIDS.
Video and audio streams of Ndungane's interview are available at http://www.episcopalchurch.org/3577_82947_ENG_HTM.htm.
Full story: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/3577_82982_ENG_HTM.htm
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Catalyst: "Quinine: Malaria and the Quest for a Cure That Changed the World" from HarperCollins Publishers, by Fiammetta Rocco, 384 pages, paperback, c. 2004, $13.95
[Source: HarperCollins Publishers] -- Quinine: The Jesuits discovered it. The Protestants feared it. The British vied with the Dutch for it, and the Nazis seized it. Because of quinine, medicine, warfare, and exploration were changed forever.
For more than one thousand years, there was no cure for malaria. In 1623, after ten cardinals and hundreds of their attendants died in Rome while electing Urban VII the new pope, he announced that a cure must be found. He encouraged Jesuit priests establishing new missions in Asia and in South America to learn everything they could about how the local people treated the disease, and in 1631, an apothecarist in Peru named Agostino Salumbrino dispatched a new miracle to Rome. The cure was quinine, an alkaloid made from the bitter red bark of the cinchona tree.
From the quest of the Englishmen who smuggled cinchona seeds out of South America to the way
in which quinine opened the door to Western imperial adventure in Asia, Africa, and beyond, and to malaria's effects even today, award-winning author Fiammetta Rocco deftly chronicles the story of this historically ravenous disease.
To order: Episcopal Books and Resources, online at http://www.episcopalbookstore.org or call 800-903-5544.
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