Episcopal Life Online Newslink September 30, 2007
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Today's ELO Newslink includes:
* TOP STORY - San Francisco's Grace Cathedral welcomes Presiding Bishop * TOP STORY - Alabama elects John McKee Sloan as bishop suffragan * WORLD REPORT - IRELAND: Archbishop commends House of Bishops' response
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TOP STORIES
San Francisco's Grace Cathedral welcomes Presiding Bishop Diocesan bishop joins forum talk; audio stream available online
By Bob Williams
[Episcopal News Service, San Francisco] Divine messengers "act to drive out fear," Presiding Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori said in her homily marking the Feast of St. Michael and All Angels observed September 30 at San Francisco's Grace Cathedral. "That may be the best test of the messenger's source," she added.
"When the message is about fear or hate, we can be sure that it comes from an unholy messenger," Jefferts Schori said, having noted that the "encounter between Michael and the dragon is a reminder of that reality. [Full sermon text is available here.]
"Sometimes the unbidden messenger is one that instills fear -- real fear, not the awe of God -- or uses fear to motivate, like the creeping urge we have to protect ourselves from people who are in some way different."
Full story: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/79901_90574_ENG_HTM.htm
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Alabama elects John McKee Sloan as bishop suffragan
By Mary Frances Schjonberg and Matthew Davies
[Episcopal News Service] The Rev. John McKee "Kee" Sloan was elected September 30 as bishop suffragan of the Episcopal Diocese of Alabama.
Sloan, 52, rector of St. Thomas Episcopal Church in Huntsville, Alabama, was elected on the third ballot out of a field of six nominees. He received 162 votes of 288 cast in the lay order and 63 of 114 cast in the clergy order. An election on that ballot required 145 in the lay order and 58 in the clergy order.
The election was held at the Cathedral Church of the Advent in Birmingham. Sloan will succeed former Bishop Suffragan Marc Andrus, who was elected bishop of California on May 6, 2006.
Full story: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/79901_90572_ENG_HTM.htm
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WORLD REPORT
IRELAND: Archbishop commends House of Bishops' response http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81808_90554_ENG_HTM.htm
More World news: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81808_ENG_HTM.htm