Episcopal Life Online Newslink April 27, 2007
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Today's ELO Newslink includes:
* TOP STORY - Episcopal Communicators announce Polly Bond Awards, elect Jim DeLa president * TOP STORY - Episcopalians join celebration of first Anglicans in Virginia * DIOCESAN DIGEST - MINNESOTA: Diocese makes first MDG donations * DIOCESAN DIGEST - NEW HAMPSHIRE: Bishop says he and partner will enter into civil union * DIOCESAN DIGEST - NEW YORK: Confirmation class prompts commitment for large number of parishioners * DIOCESAN DIGEST - Province II gathers in Albany, renews commitment to mission * DIOCESAN DIGEST - SPOKANE: Parish receives United Way volunteer award * WORLD REPORT - CANADA: Anglican Journal recognized as best in its field * WORLD REPORT - CHINA: Church autonomy, patriotism are supreme principles, Protestant leader says * WORLD REPORT - ENGLAND: Archbishop expresses 'deep sorrow' over child-abuse suffering * FEATURES - Survey says clergy have highest job satisfaction * OPINION - The huddled masses, yearning to breathe free * ARTS - God Grew Tired of Us: Beautiful film stirs painful memories for this 'Lost Boy'
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TOP STORIES
Episcopal Communicators announce Polly Bond Awards, elect Jim DeLa president
By Pat McCaughan
[ENS, Virginia Beach] Episcopal communications -- from a balsa hand glider imprinted for Presiding Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori's investiture, to disaster recovery news stories, webcast Advent Meditations and an Episcopal Life bag -- were among Polly Bond Award-winning entries at an April 26 evening Episcopal Communicators banquet.
"I can't get over some of the valiant efforts I see all over the Anglican Communion to communicate the Gospel of Jesus Christ, a gospel of inclusion and new life that the whole world is desperate to hear," Canon Jim Rosenthal told the gathering of Episcopal Communicators at Virginia Beach's Cavalier Hotel. About 120 communicators are attending the April 25-28 annual meeting of church professionals from parishes, dioceses and national agencies across the country.
"The time has come for us to make communications a priority in the life of parishes and dioceses. As technology grows, let's grow in our intention to communicate," added Rosenthal, director of communications for the Anglican Communion, who presented the Award of Excellence for editorial writing in newspapers and periodicals.
Full story: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/79901_85361_ENG_HTM.htm
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Episcopalians join celebration of first Anglicans in Virginia
By Jan Nunley
[ENS, Virginia Beach] Before Jamestown, there was Virginia Beach -- or as it was first called, Cape Henry.
In late April of 1607, after almost five arduous months at sea, 105 English men and boys from the ships Discovery, Godspeed, and Susan Constant gratefully made landfall in what they called the New World.
And on a cold spring day 400 years later, three ghostly ships, replicas of the original vessels, appeared again off the coast of Virginia as part of a celebration of their arrival.
Full story: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/79901_85362_ENG_HTM.htm
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DIOCESAN DIGEST
MINNESOTA: Diocese makes first MDG donations
http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81803_85366_ENG_HTM.htm
NEW HAMPSHIRE: Bishop says he and partner will enter into civil union http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81803_85375_ENG_HTM.htm
NEW YORK: Confirmation class prompts commitment for large number of parishioners http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81803_85359_ENG_HTM.htm
Province II gathers in Albany, renews commitment to mission http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81803_85369_ENG_HTM.htm
SPOKANE: Parish receives United Way volunteer award http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81803_85358_ENG_HTM.htm
More Diocesan news: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81803_ENG_HTM.htm
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WORLD REPORT
CANADA: Anglican Journal recognized as best in its field http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81808_85354_ENG_HTM.htm
CHINA: Church autonomy, patriotism are supreme principles, Protestant leader says http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81808_85352_ENG_HTM.htm
ENGLAND: Archbishop expresses 'deep sorrow' over child-abuse suffering http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81808_85371_ENG_HTM.htm
More World news: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81808_ENG_HTM.htm
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FEATURES
Survey says clergy have highest job satisfaction
By Marcia Z. Nelson
[Religion News Service] If you want to be rich, get an MBA. If you want to be happy, go for an MDiv.
Members of the clergy rank highest in job satisfaction, according to a report released April 17 by the National Opinion Research Center at the University of Chicago. More than 87 percent of clergy said they were satisfied with their jobs, followed by firefighters (80 percent) and physical therapists (78 percent).
Cynthia Lindner, directory of ministry studies at the university's Divinity School, said the findings rang true to her. People come to the field with no expectation of getting rich and every expectation of being able to make some difference in the world, she said.
Full story: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81834_85346_ENG_HTM.htm
More Features: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/78936_ENG_HTM.htm
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OPINION
The huddled masses, yearning to breathe free
By Tom Ehrich
[Religion News Service] A trip to Ellis Island requires long lines and long waits. But it's nothing like the anxious hours, sometimes days, of scrutiny once imposed on poorer immigrants seeking entry into the United States after two weeks in steerage on an ocean liner.
Our wait was more like the processing time for immigrants who could afford first- or second-class tickets; after brief inspection onboard ship, they were allowed straight into America. The theory was that anyone who could afford a decent berth wouldn't become a burden on American society.
Others, however, needed to prove their viability as citizens by passing through a gantlet that rose higher and higher during the 1892-1924 peak immigration period when up to 5,000 immigrants passed through Ellis Island each day.
Full story: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/80050_85349_ENG_HTM.htm
More Opinion: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/80050_ENG_HTM.htm
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ARTS
God Grew Tired of Us
Beautiful film stirs painful memories for this 'Lost Boy'
By Daniel Akech James
[Episcopal Life] In God Grew Tired of Us, Jon Bul Dau describes how he buried a dead child. He was 13. It was his job, he said, being the eldest and the tallest of the 1,200 children whom he led across central Sudan to a United Nations refugee camp in Ethiopia. This film is close to my heart because I, too, am a "Lost Boy," one of 25,000 children who fled their homes in southern Sudan to escape extermination by Sudan's Islamic government in the 1980s.
Yet this beautiful film isn't about politics. It's about how the Lost Boys became each other's family.
Full story: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81827_85372_ENG_HTM.htm
More Arts: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81827_ENG_HTM.htm
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