Episcopal Life Online Daybook -- Today is Tuesday, September 18, 2007. The Church calendar remembers Edward Bouverie Pusey, priest (1800-1882).
* 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 1643, Gilbert Burnet, Scottish theologian and historian, and Bishop of Salisbury, was born in Edinburgh, Scotland.
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TEACHING
Washington's Cathedral College to host Spanish preaching course
[ENS] The Cathedral College of Washington National Cathedral will host a Spanish preaching conference, spoken entirely in Spanish, October 22-26.
"Biblical Preaching: A Hispanic Approach" (for Spanish-speaking preachers) will be a comprehensive introduction to the art of biblical preaching offering a definition of biblical preaching and a method of biblical interpretation for preaching. Participants will explore how to preach some of the most common biblical forms, such as Hebrew narrative, Psalms and Proverbs, prophetic oracles, miracles, parables, epistles, and apocalyptic texts.
The conference will be led by the Rev. Pablo A. Jiménez, an ordained minister of the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) with more than 25 years of ministerial experience. Jiménez directs http://www.predicar.org, a bilingual website dedicated to Hispanic homiletics. He also serves as editor of Chalice Press, a line of academic and pastoral books, and co-wrote Púlpito: An Introduction to Hispanic Preaching (2005) with Justo L. González.
The conference cost is $750. To register visit: https://commerce.cathedral.org/exec/cop/register
A full list of preaching conferences and programs offered by the Cathedral College of Washington National Cathedral is available at http://www.cathedral.org/cathedral/college/preachers/conferenceSchedule.s htm l
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Catalyst: "Every Drop for Sale" from the Penguin Group, by Jeffrey Rothfeder, 205 pages, paperback, c. 2001, $14.95
[Source: The Penguin Group] Less than .0008 percent of the total water on Earth is fit for human consumption, but global consumption of fresh water is doubling every 20 years. Water has become perhaps the most precious commodity -- a life-sustaining but increasingly rare and privatized resource. A dramatic gap exists between those who have adequate water for survival and those who don't, and tensions over water in some areas of the world hover just below open war.
From Europe to Asia to Africa to America, Jeffrey Rothfeder has visited the
world's hot spots, those with the least amount of water, as well as places where there is so much of it that plans are in the works to sell the excess to the highest bidder. In this compelling narrative account of our world in turmoil over water, Rothfeder describes the issues and struggles of the people on all sides of the water crisis: from the scarred survivors of bizarre water-management practices, to those who are willing to die for water to sustain their families and crops, to the scientists and leaders who are trying to set things straight.
Important, provocative, and immensely readable, Every Drop for Sale explores a fascinating critical dilemma: As we run out of it, is water a fundamental right of everybody on Earth or just a product humans need that can be bought and sold like any other commodity?
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