Episcopal Life Online Newslink April 12, 2007
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Today's ELO Newslink includes:
* TOP STORY - Jamestown's 400th year is focus of April 22 bulletin insert * DIOCESAN DIGEST - NEW HAMPSHIRE: Bishop calls for passage of civil-unions bill * DIOCESAN DIGEST - NEW JERSEY, NEWARK: Bishops issue statement on talk-show controversy * DIOCESAN DIGEST - NORTHERN CALIFORNIA: Filipino congregation birthed in Elk Grove * WORLD REPORT - UGANDA: Church leaders concerned after old adultery law scrapped * FEATURE - North and South: Pondering the differing views of Christianity in different parts of the Communion
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TOP STORIES
Jamestown's 400th year is focus of April 22 bulletin insert
[ELO] The April 22 edition of Episcopal Life This Week focuses on observances marking the 400th anniversary of the English settlement at Jamestown, which begin on April 26 in Virginia Beach.
The Episcopal Church will join the months-long observance of the 400th anniversary of North America's first permanent English settlement in Jamestown, Virginia. The commemoration officially begins April 26 with the marking of the English settlers' first landing at what is now Virginia Beach.
The Episcopal Church traces the heritage of its first congregation to Jamestown, and many churchwide groups -- together with the dioceses in Virginia and West Virginia -- are commemorating the historical event with conferences and gatherings.
Suggested for use April 22, the bulletin insert is available at http://www.episcopalchurch.org/78650_8852_ENG_HTM.htm
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DIOCESAN DIGEST
NEW HAMPSHIRE: Bishop calls for passage of civil-unions bill http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81803_84860_ENG_HTM.htm
NEW JERSEY, NEWARK: Bishops issue statement on talk-show controversy http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81803_84841_ENG_HTM.htm
NORTHERN CALIFORNIA: Filipino congregation birthed in Elk Grove http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81803_84849_ENG_HTM.htm
More Diocesan news: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81803_ENG_HTM.htm
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WORLD REPORT
UGANDA: Church leaders concerned after old adultery law scrapped http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81808_84853_ENG_HTM.htm
More World news: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81808_ENG_HTM.htm
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FEATURES
North and South
Pondering the differing views of Christianity in different parts of the Communion
By Daniel Burke
[Religion News Service] On a global scale, scholar and author Philip Jenkins says, Christianity is headed south.
While membership in churches north of the equator, particularly in mainline denominations, generally is falling off, pews in the so-called "global South" are packed with believers, according to the Pennsylvania State University professor.
But as the turmoil in the global Anglican Communion over Scripture and sexual ethics attests, differences between northern and southern Christians are anything but academic. In January, an Anglican committee met in the Bahamas to begin work on a covenant to bind its constituent national churches. That draft covenant was presented to the Primates as they met in Tanzania in February. Jenkins talked about faith in the global South and why it matters to northern Christians.
Full interview: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81834_84819_ENG_HTM.htm
More Features: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/78936_ENG_HTM.htm
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