Episcopal Life Online Newslink April 30, 2007
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Today's ELO Newslink includes:
* TOP STORY - Episcopal Communicators consider 'wiki' world, collaborative mission, hip hop * TOP STORY - Episcopal Life, Anglican Journal receive top awards from Associated Church Press * DIOCESAN DIGEST - ARKANSAS: Mission feels strength of new members, new life * DIOCESAN DIGEST - NORTHWEST TEXAS: Bishop announces retirement plans * DIOCESAN DIGEST - PROVINCE II: ERD responds after flooding following Nor'easter * DIOCESAN DIGEST - SOUTHERN OHIO: Thomas E. Breidenthal consecrated as ninth bishop * VIRGINIA: Nigerian Primate to install bishop; Presiding Bishop says action would 'heighten tensions' * WORLD REPORT - MELANESIA: New program prepares prisoners for release * FEATURE - Aiding recovery efforts: Church projects rebuild homes in Sri Lanka, a school in Sudan * IMAGE GALLERY - Episcopalians join celebration of first Anglicans in Virginia
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TOP STORIES
Episcopal Communicators consider 'wiki' world, collaborative mission, hip hop
Lack of international communication part of Anglicanism's current challenges, presenters say
By Pat McCaughan
[ENS, Virginia Beach] Episcopal Communicators packed 400 years into their April 25-28 annual meeting, from commemorating the beginnings of the first European settlement and Anglican Church in the New World, to contemplating future mission amid the rapidly evolving "wiki" world of technology and celebrating with a Hip Hop Mass.
The collaboration inherent in wiki (a Hawaiian word for quickly) online applications "offers a model for shared ministry," the Episcopal Church's communication director, Canon Robert Williams, told the gathering April 28.
He cited the popular book "Wikinomics" that emphasizes four collaborative work principles: openness, peer-ing (in the sense of working as peers), sharing, and acting globally. The combination "sounds like the Anglican Communion at its best," Williams said.
"Communication and collaboration are essential to the Christian life, and to addressing current tensions in our church and the wider Anglican Communion," he said, also underscoring the importance of "transparency and mission" in the churchwide communication program.
Full story: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/79901_85440_ENG_HTM.htm
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Episcopal Life, Anglican Journal receive top awards from Associated Church Press
[Episcopal News Service] Episcopal Life and Canada's Anglican Journal took home top awards at the annual Associated Church Press convention in Chicago April 22-25.
Judges made awards in 59 categories for work done in 2006 in the religious press. ACP members sent in more than 1,250 entries.
The Toronto-based Anglican Journal won first place for "Best in Class: National or International Newspaper," followed by Episcopal Life. The Christian Chronicle and Mennonite Weekly Review were tied for third place. Cathedral Age, the magazine of the Washington National Cathedral, was also a "Best in Class" winner. It earned second place in its class: special interest magazine.
The annual convention, attended by 120 members representing some of the several hundred publications in ACP, welcomed the Rev. Barbara Brown Taylor, author and Episcopal priest, as one of the convention speakers. She signed copies of her latest book, "Leaving Church: A Memoir of Faith."
Full story: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/79901_85427_ENG_HTM.htm
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DIOCESAN DIGEST
ARKANSAS: Mission feels strength of new members, new life http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81803_85433_ENG_HTM.htm
NORTHWEST TEXAS: Bishop announces retirement plans http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81803_85417_ENG_HTM.htm
PROVINCE II: ERD responds after flooding following Nor'easter http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81803_85421_ENG_HTM.htm
SOUTHERN OHIO: Thomas E. Breidenthal consecrated as http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81803_85415_ENG_HTM.htmninth bishop
VIRGINIA: Nigerian Primate to install bishop; Presiding Bishop says action would 'heighten tensions' http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81803_85443_ENG_HTM.htm
More Diocesan news: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81803_ENG_HTM.htm
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WORLD REPORT
MELANESIA: New program prepares prisoners for release http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81808_85432_ENG_HTM.htm
More World news: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81808_ENG_HTM.htm
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FEATURES
Aiding recovery efforts
Church projects rebuild homes in Sri Lanka, a school in Sudan
By Jackie Rider
[Episcopal Life] She emigrated to the United States from Sri Lanka. He came from Sudan. Both held strong ties to their homelands while building new lives here. Those bonds have inspired two U.S. parishes to construct concrete witnesses to the global church family.
The people of St. Alban's Episcopal Church, Tucson, Arizona, recently rebuilt 16 houses in Sri Lanka that had been destroyed in the tsunami of 2004. They named the project in memory of one of their own, Somavo Madawela, who died in the storm.
The houses were built in the fishing village of Panama, a remote area with a population of three to four thousand bound by jungle and water. Entire families had been living in 8- by 10-foot mud huts with coconut-leaf roofs. Their new homes have tile roofs and cement walls with windows and doors. Measuring 550 square feet, each includes a kitchen and two bedrooms.
Full story: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81834_85406_ENG_HTM.htm
More Features: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/78936_ENG_HTM.htm
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IMAGE GALLERIES
Episcopalians join celebration of first Anglicans in Virginia
[Episcopal News Service] 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.
The 400th anniversary of the First Landing was marked on April 26 in Virginia Beach, Virginia, with a re-enactment of the ships' arrival. Presiding Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori attended this event, which corresponded with the annual conference of the Episcopal Communicators in Virginia Beach.
Image Gallery: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/80056_ENG_HTM.htm
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