Episcopal Life Online Newslink June 9, 2007
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Today's ELO Newslink includes:
* TOP STORY - The heart of ministry: the death and life of Jim Kelsey * TOP STORY - Bill Moyers Journal features Presiding Bishop
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TOP STORIES
The heart of ministry: the death and life of Jim Kelsey
By Herb Gunn
[Episcopal News Service] Ecclesiastical orders melted at the church door in Marquette, Michigan, on Friday, June 8, as 600 people touched by the life and stunned by the death of Jim Kelsey, an Episcopalian in the Diocese of Northern Michigan, gathered for his funeral. Concurrent services were celebrated at his former parish of Holy Trinity in Swanton, Vermont, and at the cathedral in Christchurch, New Zealand.
Also celebrated on the same day was a funeral mass at St. Joseph Church in Lake Linden, Michigan, for Michael Charles Wiita, the second man killed in the June 3 auto accident. The father of Wiita's fiancée, Jessica Slavik who was injured in the crash, came to Marquette to sign Kelsey's guest book and extend the family's respects.
At Kelsey's funeral, there was no liturgical procession for the nearly three-dozen bishops who traveled from across the Episcopal Church and sat with family or friends in St. Michael Roman Catholic Church. Save the presider, Bruce Caldwell, bishop of the Diocese of Wyoming and Kelsey's close friend, and the deacon, Teena Maki of Northern Michigan, no one wore vestments and there was no special seating. Some priests wore neckties with others in street clothes.
Full story: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/79901_86722_ENG_HTM.htm
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Bill Moyers Journal features Presiding Bishop
[Episcopal News Service] Appearing on June 8 editions of Bill Moyers Journal, Presiding Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori talked about science, the environment, and the challenges in the Anglican Communion concerning issues of human sexuality.
The 25-minute segment and a full transcript is available at http://www.pbs.org/moyers/journal/06082007/watch2.html
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