Episcopal Life Online Newslink September 18, 2007
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Today's ELO Newslink includes:
* TOP STORY - Domestic Missionary Partnership explores collaborative work, distributes grants for ministry projects * DIOCESAN DIGEST ? CHICAGO: Persell criticizes Akinola's anticipated visit * DIOCESAN DIGEST - NORTH CAROLINA: Conversations held prior to House of Bishops meeting * DIOCESAN DIGEST - OHIO: Cathedral to celebrate centennial * DIOCESAN DIGEST - SOUTH CAROLINA: Episcopal Forum tells bishops, standing committees of its concern about Lawrence * WORLD REPORT - ANGLICAN COMMUNION: Lambeth Conference funding opportunities announced * WORLD REPORT - EUROPE: Anglican Centre in Rome invites applications for director * WORLD REPORT - LAMBETH PALACE: Archbishop to visit Armenia, Syria and Lebanon * WORLD REPORT - WALES: Archbishop warns proposed Anglican covenant could lead to exclusion * OPINION - Date of dignity: Will bishops make September 30 a day to remember once again?
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TOP STORIES
Domestic Missionary Partnership explores collaborative work, distributes grants for ministry projects
By Dick Snyder
[ENS] Members of the Domestic Missionary Partnership (DMP) met September 5-9 in Boulder City, Nevada, to share information about new ministry projects, learn about the reorganization of the Episcopal Church Center and distribute grants.
DMP was formed in 1997 by several of the member dioceses of the former Coalition 14, which had its roots in the early 1970s when dioceses supported by the Episcopal Church banded together to change the way funds were distributed. DMP's current members are the dioceses of Alaska, Arizona, Eastern Oregon, Eau Claire, Idaho, Mississippi, Navajoland Area Mission, Nevada, North Dakota, Utah, and Western Kansas.
Among the grants distributed at this year's meeting, $5,000 was designated to help sponsor an expanded conference to investigate how DMP might collaborate with similar networks, such as the Living Stones Diocesan Partnership, and explore the possibility of holding a joint conference in association with the Episcopal Church's office for small-membership churches.
Full story: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/79901_90153_ENG_HTM.htm
More Top Stories: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/elife
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DIOCESAN DIGEST
CHICAGO: Persell criticizes Akinola's anticipated visit http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81803_90135_ENG_HTM.htm
NORTH CAROLINA: Conversations held prior to House of Bishops meeting http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81803_90130_ENG_HTM.htm
OHIO: Cathedral to celebrate centennial
http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81803_90131_ENG_HTM.htm
SOUTH CAROLINA: Episcopal Forum tells bishops, standing committees of its concern about Lawrence http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81803_90151_ENG_HTM.htm
More Diocesan news: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81803_ENG_HTM.htm
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WORLD REPORT
EUROPE: Anglican Centre in Rome invites applications for director http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81808_90133_ENG_HTM.htm
LAMBETH PALACE: Archbishop to visit Armenia, Syria and Lebanon http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81808_90134_ENG_HTM.htm
WALES: Archbishop warns proposed Anglican covenant could lead to exclusion http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81808_90152_ENG_HTM.htm
More World news: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81808_ENG_HTM.htm
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OPINION
Date of dignity
Will bishops make September 30 a day to remember once again?
By Winnie Varghese
[Episcopal Life] On September 30, 1962, James Meredith walked into a building on the University of Mississippi campus defying segregation. On that same day, Cesar Chavez established the United Farm Workers in California. September 30, 2007, is the day that our House of Bishops is to reply to the Dar es Salaam communiqué's list of demands. May their response be another sign of the dignity of the human person, further realized.
Most of the response already has been made. The primates wanted four points addressed. The bishops answered three of them at their spring meeting. The late Bishop James Kelsey wrote about his experience at that meeting on his diocesan blog.
At that meeting, the bishops declined to participate in the "pastoral scheme." They had been asked to refrain from authorizing liturgies for the blessing of same-sex unions -- and to make a clarifying statement -- and to stop electing out gay or lesbian bishops. Our bishops replied that decisions that affect the life of the entire church into the future would have to be made by a General Convention.
Full story: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/80050_90128_ENG_HTM.htm
More Opinion: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/80050_ENG_HTM.htm