Episcopal Life Online Newslink May 25, 2007
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Today's ELO Newslink includes:
* TOP STORY - Lambeth Conference won't look like past gatherings, design team member predicts * TOP STORY - Agreed Anglican-Orthodox statement released * DIOCESAN DIGEST - LONG ISLAND: Mercer School of Theology offers certificate program for senior caregivers * DIOCESAN DIGEST - Nigerian gay activist brings message to Episcopal Church * DIOCESAN DIGEST - UPPER SOUTH CAROLINA: Diocese raises funds for healthy church initiatives * WORLD REPORT - ANGLICAN COMMUNION: Theological Education working group meets in Singapore * WORLD REPORT - NIGERIA: Tutu, Dalai Lama join Nobel winners' call for new elections * WORLD REPORT - SWAZILAND: ERD responds to hunger crisis * OPINION - Trickle-down corruption * ARTS - The Visual Preludes: ECVA artists, musicians team up on DVD
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This Memorial Day, the ELO staff is particularly mindful of the more than 3,300 Americans and as many as 65,000 Iraqi civilians who have died since the Iraq War began on March 19, 2003.
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TOP STORIES
Lambeth Conference won't look like past gatherings, design team member predicts Ian Douglas says Conference will aim to equip bishops in their leadership vocation
By Mary Frances Schjonberg
[Episcopal News Service] The Lambeth Conference 2008 will be a significantly different gathering from the 1998 and 1988 sessions of the once-a-decade meeting of the bishops of the Anglican Communion, according to a member of the Conference's design team.
The design for Lambeth 2008 "is not driven by production of reports and enabling resolutions building out of the reports, and that's a significant departure from previous designs," the Rev. Dr. Ian T. Douglas, a member of the Episcopal Church's Executive Council and of its delegation to the Anglican Consultative Council, told the Episcopal News Service. "The focus here is on transformation, the building of communion and the engagement with each other, the goal of which is to equip the bishops to be more effective and faithful servants to the 'Missio Dei' [God's mission]."
The 2008 Conference has been in the news this week since the Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr. Rowan Williams, announced May 22 that a small number of bishops have not been invited to attend.
Full story: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/79901_86314_ENG_HTM.htm
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Agreed Anglican-Orthodox statement released
[Episcopal News Service] The International Commission for Anglican-Orthodox Theological Dialogue has released "The Church of the Triune God," an ecclesiological statement registering considerable agreement over a wide range of issues on the nature and mission of the Church.
The introduction to this 117-page document states that "the publication of this Cyprus Agreed Statement concludes the third phase of the Anglican-Orthodox international theological dialogue. It began in 1973...[and] the first phase of the dialogue was concluded by the publication of the Moscow Agreed Statement in 1976. The publication of the Dublin Agreed Statement in 1984 brought its second phase to a conclusion."
Episcopal Bishop Mark Dyer and Greek Orthodox Metropolitan John (Zizioulas) of Pergamon have been co-chairs of Commission and write in their preface that this statement "is offered to the Anglican and Orthodox churches in the hope that, as it is studied and reflected upon, it will help Christians of both traditions to perceive anew the work of the Triune God in giving life to His Church, and draw us closer to that unity which is His will for all the faithful."
Full story: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/79901_86292_ENG_HTM.htm
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DIOCESAN DIGEST
LONG ISLAND: Mercer School of Theology offers certificate program for senior caregivers http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81803_86316_ENG_HTM.htm
Nigerian gay activist brings message to Episcopal Church http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81803_86312_ENG_HTM.htm
UPPER SOUTH CAROLINA: Diocese raises funds for healthy church initiatives http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81803_86317_ENG_HTM.htm
More Diocesan news: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81803_ENG_HTM.htm
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WORLD REPORT
ANGLICAN COMMUNION: Theological Education working group meets in Singapore http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81808_86311_ENG_HTM.htm
NIGERIA: Tutu, Dalai Lama join Nobel winners' call for new elections http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81808_86300_ENG_HTM.htm
SWAZILAND: ERD responds to hunger crisis
http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81808_86298_ENG_HTM.htm
More World news: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81808_ENG_HTM.htm
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OPINION
Trickle-down corruption
By Tom Ehrich
[Religion News Service] Recently, just before the semester's orchestra concert, someone went behind stage at my son's school, found the bows used by cellists, and cut each bow in half. This took place at an arts magnet school where, in theory, every student has a passion for the arts.
Across town, Duke University's Fuqua School of Business announced plans to punish three dozen students for cheating on their work. This took place at a school striving for recognition as a training ground for tomorrow's business leaders.
In the same week, school administrators across the country prepared to jettison school-provided laptops; it seems the students had used the computers to exchange answers during exams and to surf the Web for pornography.
Full story: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/80050_86318_ENG_HTM.htm
More Opinion: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/80050_ENG_HTM.htm
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ARTS
The Visual Preludes: ECVA artists, musicians team up on DVD
[Episcopal News Service] Artists who are members of Episcopal Church & Visual Arts have produced "The Visual Preludes," a set of two DVDs that has a series of 10 multimedia meditations -- each 10 to 12 minutes in length -- set to music for private or group viewing. The meditations feature the work of 123 visual artists and 10 musicians. Titles include "Gracious Spirit," "Bread of Life," and "All Things into Christ." Total time 116 minutes.
The Visual Preludes Resource Guide is a companion resource for the Visual Preludes 2-DVD set. It is designed as an educator's guide, with small group programs for each of the videos. The resource guide also profiles 17 artists. Full color, 36 pages, Sold as a set, $32.95.
Visual Preludes can be purchased at
http://shop.visio-divina.com/ProductDetails.asp?ProductCode=VP-DVDRG
Full story: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81827_86301_ENG_HTM.htm
More Arts: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81827_ENG_HTM.htm
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