Episcopal Life Online Daybook -- Today is Friday, August 31, 2007. The Church calendar remembers Aidan, bishop of Lindisfarne (d.651).
* 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 1159, Adrian (or Hadrian) IV, the only English pope in history, died in Anagni, Italy.
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Archdeacon Michael S. Kendall on the Living Wage and Economic Justice
[ENS] As Labor Day approaches, Archdeacon Michael S. Kendall of the Episcopal Diocese of New York speaks about economic justice and the Episcopal Church's support for a Living Wage.
A video stream of Kendall's interview is available at http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81231_ENG_HTM.htm
The Episcopal Network for Economic Justice has developed a "how-to" manual for congregations and individuals to understand and become involved with issues of economic justice. The resource is available at http://www.enej.org/Resources.htm.
Kendall also recommends visiting http://www.livingwagecampaign.org for a brief history of the national living wage movement, background materials such as ordinance summaries and comparisons, drafting tips, research summaries, talking points, and links to other living wage-related sites.
A bulletin insert for September 2, "Praying for a Living Wage," is available at http://www.episcopalchurch.org/78650_8852_ENG_HTM.htm
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Catalyst: "Three Cups of Tea: One Man's Mission to Fight Terrorism and Build Nations... One School at a Time" from the Penguin Group, by Greg Mortenson and David Oliver Relin, 338 pages, hardcover, c. 2006, $25.95
[Source: The Penguin Group] One man's campaign to build schools in the most dangerous, remote, and anti-American reaches of Asia: in 1993, Greg Mortenson was an American mountain-climbing bum wandering emaciated and lost through Pakistan's Karakoram. After he was taken in and nursed back to health by the people of a Pakistani village, he promised to return one day and build them a school. From that rash, earnest promise grew one of the most incredible humanitarian campaigns of our time -- Mortenson's one-man mission to counteract extremism by building schools, especially for girls, throughout the breeding ground of the Taliban. In a region where Americans are often feared and hated, he has survived kidnapping, fatwas issued by enraged mullahs, death threats, and wrenching separations from his wife and children. But his success speaks for itself: at last count, his Central Asia Institute had built 55 schools.
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