Episcopal Life Online Daybook -- Today is Monday, June 18, 2007. The Church remembers Bernard Mizeki, catechist and martyr in Rhodesia (1861-1896).
* 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 2006, Katharine Jefferts Schori was elected 26th Presiding Bishop at the 75th General Convention. On this day in 1998, Frederick H. Borsch, former dean of the Church Divinity School of the Pacific (CDSP), was consecrated Bishop of Los Angeles.
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GreenFaith announces national Fellowship Program for environmental leadership
GreenFaith, New Jersey's interfaith coalition for the environment, is launching the GreenFaith Fellowship Program, the first comprehensive education and training program in the U.S. to prepare lay and ordained leaders from diverse religious traditions for religiously based environmental leadership.
"This program will offer these leaders the opportunity for educational, spiritual and vocational growth and skill development in religious environmentalism," said Episcopal priest the Rev. Fletcher Harper, GreenFaith's executive director. "We believe they will make a lasting contribution to the development of an environmentally just and sustainable world."
The Fellowship Program will consist of three four-day residential sessions in ecologically varied settings (one urban, one rural, and one suburban), conference calls, mentoring sessions, an e-mail list serve, networking within the program and in each Fellows' region, and substantial reading and writing assignments. The first Fellowship class will consist of at least 12 Fellows and will run from the fall of 2007 through the spring of 2009. Fellows will be selected through a competitive application process.
Rabbi Lawrence Troster is the Fellowship Program director. Troster is a nationally recognized religious environmental leader who has worked with the Coalition for the Environment and Jewish Life (COEJL), the Jewish Theological Seminary, as a Steinhardt Fellow at the Center for Life and Learning (CLAL), and as a rabbi of congregations in Toronto and New Jersey. A graduate of the University of Toronto and the Jewish Theological Seminary, he has published and lectured widely on theology and environmentalism, and has led GreenFaith's Meeting the Sacred in Creation retreats for religious leaders.
Full story: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/79901_86954_ENG_HTM.htm
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Catalyst: "Pilgrim Prayers for Single Fathers" from The Pilgrim Press, by David Albert Farmer, 108 pages, paperback, c. 2004, $12
[Source: The Pilgrim Press] Pilgrim Prayers for Single Fathers is a collection of conversations with God based on heart-felt, real-life situations. Growing out of the author's experience as a single father and the experiences of other single fathers known to him as friends and parishioners, Farmer finds God's loving presence squarely in the middle of all the extra challenges of single parenthood. Whether life goes haywire, hopeful, or hilarious, he found God's nearness as his source of strength and insight.
Farmer, in forming his prayers as part of devotional moments for busy single fathers, intertwines Hebrew and Christian scriptures, other great documents of spirituality, and sources of news and information in the modern media. The book contains 30 prayers.
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