Episcopal Life Online Daybook -- Today is Monday, April 16 in Easter.
* Today in Scripture:
http://www.episcopalchurch.org/82457_ENG_HTM.htm * Today in Prayer: Anglican Cycle of Prayer: http://www.anglicancommunion.org/acp/index.cfm * Today in History: On this day in 1993, the first Primate in the Anglican Church in Korea was inaugurated.
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Mission: Sudan's stability, future central to American Friends' gathering
By Matthew Davies
[ENS, St. Louis] Sudan's Comprehensive Peace Agreement (CPA), ending the atrocities in Darfur, and building infrastructure in the war-torn country were priorities emphasized at the third annual gathering of the American Friends of the Episcopal Church of Sudan (AFRECS).
Meeting at Christ Church Cathedral April 13-15 in downtown St. Louis, Missouri, the 100 or so participants included Sudanese bishops and members of the Lost Boys of Sudan program that has resettled more than 4,000 refugees in the United States.
Guest speakers included Andrew Natsios, the President's special envoy to Sudan; Brian D'Silva, USAID senior advisor on Sudan programs; John Prendergast, senior adviser at the International Crisis Group; and Canon Margaret Larom, director of the Episcopal Church's Office of Anglican and Global Relations.
"All of us are heirs of the missionaries," Missouri Bishop George Wayne Smith said in welcoming the participants to his diocese, which has a companion relationship with the Episcopal Diocese of Lui in Sudan.
"In recent years God has given us to one another," said Smith. "The relationship with our brothers and sisters in the Lui diocese has been a tremendous gift."
Founded in 2005, AFRECS describes itself as "an organization of U.S. churches, non-governmental organizations, and individuals who care deeply about the struggles of the Sudanese people."
Full story: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/79901_84930_ENG_HTM.htm
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Catalyst: "Anglican Spiritual Direction" from Morehouse Publishing, by Peter Ball, 144 pages, paperback, c. 2007, $21.95
[Source: Morehouse Publishing] Peter Ball looks at some of the leading figures from the past to illustrate the roots and development of Anglican spiritual direction: George Herbert, Lancelot Andrewes, John Wesley, Somerset Ward, and Evelyn Underhill. More recent influences in the revival of interest in the subject have been Kenneth Leech, Alan Jones, Gordon Jeff, and Margaret Guenther. This is an updated version of a book first published as Journey Into Truth. New material includes developments in Australia and the US, and the increasing role played by women, as well as updated resources.
"Grounded and open, this eminently practical and incarnational guide draws on the depths of our ancient tradition with a post-modern willingness to engage all of being -- soul, spirit, and body, as well as mind. A most useful introduction to spiritual direction and its current practice in the Anglican tradition." -- Presiding Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori.
To order: Episcopal Books and Resources, online at http://www.episcopalbookstore.org or call 800-903-5544.
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