Episcopal Life Online Newslink July 3, 2007
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Today's ELO Newslink includes:
* TOP STORY - University of the South begins 150th anniversary celebration on Lookout Mountain * TOP STORY - Episcopal Relief and Development responds to disasters in South Carolina, New Jersey * TOP STORY - Church Publishing introduces Revised Common Lectionary resources * DIOCESAN DIGEST - CONNECTICUT: Diocese's first woman bishop ordained, consecrated * DIOCESAN DIGEST - WASHINGTON, D.C.: Cathedral's Center for Global Justice & Reconciliation receives First Lady's support * WORLD REPORT - ENGLAND: Process of appointing bishops may change * WORLD REPORT - MIDDLE EAST: ERD assists Ahli Arab Hospital in Gaza following ongoing unrest * OPINION - Causes and effects: Nature tells an urgent story about global warming and climate change
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TOP STORIES
University of the South begins 150th anniversary celebration on Lookout Mountain
[Episcopal News Service] Alumni, friends, and administrators of the University of the South in Sewanee, Tennessee, will meet July 4 atop Lookout Mountain, Tennessee, to commemorate the founding of the school on July 4, 1857.
The group will be kicking off the school's sesquicentennial anniversary with a service at the Church of the Good Shepherd.
The University, popularly known as Sewanee, was founded by Episcopal bishops, priests, and laymen to provide a top quality education for Southern gentlemen. In the past 150 years, the institution has evolved into a highly competitive College of Arts and Sciences and School of Theology that attract students of all backgrounds from around the United States and across the globe, according to a news release from the school.
Full story: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/79901_87768_ENG_HTM.htm
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Episcopal Relief and Development responds to disasters in South Carolina, New Jersey
[ERD] Episcopal Relief and Development (ERD) is providing emergency assistance following a deadly fire in Charleston, South Carolina and flooding in northern and southern parts of New Jersey.
Nine firefighters died battling a June 18 fire in a Charleston furniture warehouse that became an inferno of exploding windows, columns of flame and steel beams twisted from 1,000-degree heat, according to the New York Times. Excluding the September 11 attacks, the loss was the nation's deadliest episode for firefighters in three decades. It occurred in a city that claims one of the country's oldest professional fire departments. Two employees in the adjacent furniture store were rescued. More than 20 fire personnel were buried and debris and ash were dispersed throughout the area.
"We are deeply saddened for the loss of these nine brave firefighters. ERD will work with Coastal Crisis Chaplains to provide much-needed care and support to the Charleston community after this tragedy," Richard Ohlsen, ERD's director of domestic disaster preparedness and response, said in an ERD news release.
Full story: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/79901_87744_ENG_HTM.htm
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Church Publishing introduces Revised Common Lectionary resources
[Church Publishing] Church Publishing Incorporated (CPI), official publisher of the worship materials of the Episcopal Church, is introducing a complete line of Revised Common Lectionary (RCL) resources this fall.
The lectionary books, gospel books, music, and electronic titles, all updated with the RCL, are already in wide use throughout the Episcopal Church.
After several years of trial use, the 2006 General Convention authorized a transition to the Revised Common Lectionary (RCL) for Sunday use, effective the first Sunday of Advent 2007 (December 2, 2007). After a three-year transition period, use of the RCL becomes binding on the entire church in December 2010.
Full story: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/79901_87743_ENG_HTM.htm
More Top Stories: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/elife
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DIOCESAN DIGEST
CONNECTICUT: Diocese's first woman bishop ordained, consecrated http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81803_87767_ENG_HTM.htm
WASHINGTON, D.C.: Cathedral's Center for Global Justice & Reconciliation receives First Lady's support http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81803_87742_ENG_HTM.htm
More Diocesan news: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81803_ENG_HTM.htm
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WORLD REPORT
ENGLAND: Process of appointing bishops may change http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81808_87776_ENG_HTM.htm
MIDDLE EAST: ERD assists Ahli Arab Hospital in Gaza following ongoing unrest http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81808_87772_ENG_HTM.htm
More World news: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81808_ENG_HTM.htm
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OPINION
Causes and effects
Nature tells an urgent story about global warming and climate change
By Peter Gwillim Kreitler
[Episcopal Life] Everyone is talking about it, magazines are featuring stories about what to do about it, but still much is not being said about global warming and climate change. When we really listen to nature, the story becomes more urgent and challenging by the week.
The kittiwakes, skuas, arctic terns and guillemots -- magnificent shore birds that nest in the cliffs of Scotland -- no longer can feed their young, lamented the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds. The warming of the North Sea by 1 degree has forced the bait fish to move north to find colder water.
It's not a challenge for the human family, because we just build bigger and more far-ranging fishing fleets. However, the range of birds is predicated upon evolution, and they can not, even if they choose to, coax a few more miles out of their weary wings. With the birds no longer able to reach the sand eels, their young are not able to be fed, and extinction is a very real possibility. Even former Prime Minister Tony Blair weighed in on this story and commented that it's "a challenge so far-reaching in its impact and irreversible in its destructive power that it radically alters human existence."
Full story: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/80050_87504_ENG_HTM.htm
More Opinion: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/80050_ENG_HTM.htm
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