Episcopal Life Online Newslink October 12, 2007
Episcopal Life Online is available at http://www.episcopalchurch.org/elife.
Today's ELO Newslink includes:
* TOP STORY - Nevada diocese elects Georgia priest Dan Edwards as bishop * TOP STORY - Interfaith leaders focus on importance of religious freedom * TOP STORY - The Gospel, according to 'Father Matthew Presents' * TOP STORY - New film 'For the Bible Tells Me So' opens in theaters nationwide; documentary explores scripture, sexual identity * DIOCESAN DIGEST - GEORGIA: Bishop vows to continue Savannah church's ministry * WORLD REPORT - ENGLAND: Archbishop of Canterbury says new national Armed Forces Memorial helps 'make the invisible visible' * WORLD REPORT - ENGLAND: Archbishop of Canterbury sends greetings and prayers for festival concluding Ramadhan * ARTS - New Orleans parish ministers to musicians while feeding the hungry
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TOP STORIES
Nevada diocese elects Georgia priest Dan Edwards as bishop
By Mary Frances Schjonberg and Chris Clement
[Episcopal News Service] The Very Rev. Dan Thomas Edwards was elected October 12 as bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Nevada.
Edwards, 57 -- rector of St. Francis' Episcopal Church in Macon, Georgia (Diocese of Atlanta), and dean of the region's convocation of congregations -- was elected on the second ballot out of a field of six nominees. [ENS will update this story online once ballot counts are confirmed.]
The election took place during the diocese's annual convention, running October 12-14 at the South Point Hotel on the south end of the Las Vegas Strip.
Edwards will succeed Presiding Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori, who was elected presiding bishop on June 18, 2006 during the 75th General Convention and left her Nevada ministry on October 25, 2006.
Edwards will be ordained and consecrated Nevada's 10th bishop on January 5, 2008.
Full story: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/79901_90927_ENG_HTM.htm
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Interfaith leaders focus on importance of religious freedom
[ENS, Washington, D.C.] Gathered at the Jefferson Memorial at the invitation of His Holiness Karekin II, Supreme Patriarch and Catholicos of All Armenians, a group of interfaith leaders spoke Thursday, October 11, about the importance of religious freedom around the world.
Representing the Episcopal Church, Maureen Shea, director of government relations, read a statement in which she noted the church's strong belief that "religious freedom is a goal to be sought in all societies, regardless of their political creeds. Our interfaith work in this country and around the world informs us daily about those who struggle for the right to exercise the privilege of their religion."
The event opened with remarks by His Holiness regarding the importance of religious freedom as a basis of civil society.
Full story: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/79901_90926_ENG_HTM.htm
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The Gospel, according to 'Father Matthew Presents'
Be 'virtual missionaries' videoblog priest tells clergy
By Pat McCaughan
[Episcopal News Service -- Palm Springs, California] The Rev. Matthew Moretz has a "monster" of a message about the Episcopal Church and it's for clergy as well as seekers.
"LEVIATHAN!" intones Moretz in a dramatic moviephone voice throughout a four-minute video, he wrote, directed, filmed, produced, starred in and posted to YouTube. He's the Fr. Matthew of "Father Matthew Presents", a video blog ministry he began a year ago, shortly after his ordination to the priesthood.
"It's me, Father Matthew ... and I want to introduce you to the fearful and dreaded Leviathan," begins the video. It starts with a discussion of the biblical sea monster but quickly becomes an Easter message of resurrection and new life -- as well as a metaphor to help nudge technology-shy clergy to brave the new virtual frontier.
Full story: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/79901_90924_ENG_HTM.htm
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New film 'For the Bible Tells Me So' opens in theaters nationwide; documentary explores scripture, sexual identity
[Episcopal News Service] Opening in theaters nationwide on October 12 is the new film "For the Bible Tells Me So," which sets out to offer healing, clarity, and understanding to anyone wrestling with scripture and sexual identity.
New Hampshire Bishop Gene Robinson and his parents are among those interviewed in the award-winning documentary, directed and produced by Dan Karslake. Chrissy Gephardt, daughter of U.S. House of Representatives' former Majority Leader Richard Gephardt, and her family also featured.
Through the experiences of five "very normal, very Christian, very American families" the film helps viewers discover how people of faith handle, or sometimes tragically fail to handle, having a gay child.
Full story: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/79901_90923_ENG_HTM.htm
More Top Stories: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/elife
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DIOCESAN DIGEST
GEORGIA: Bishop vows to continue Savannah church's ministry http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81803_90930_ENG_HTM.htm
More Diocesan news: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81803_ENG_HTM.htm
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WORLD REPORT
ENGLAND: Archbishop of Canterbury says new national Armed Forces Memorial helps 'make the invisible visible' http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81808_90932_ENG_HTM.htm
ENGLAND: Archbishop of Canterbury sends greetings and prayers for festival concluding Ramadhan http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81808_90931_ENG_HTM.htm
More World news: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81808_ENG_HTM.htm
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ARTS
New Orleans parish ministers to musicians while feeding the hungry
By Solange De Santis
[Episcopal Life] Jazz trumpeter Kermit Ruffins plays at a "mission to musicians" jam session at St. Anna's Episcopal Church in New Orleans. On the Wednesday evening during the House of Bishops meeting in this city, Ruffins helped St. Anna's do what it's done every Wednesday for nearly two years, since the great storm raked the city: Feed people and open its doors to jazz.
A PBS television crew filmed a worship service as the exuberant rector, the Rev. Bill Terry, talked of healing the wounds of Hurricane Katrina, the two-year-old disaster that flooded the city and destroyed great swaths of the Gulf Coast.
After a pay-what-you-can supper of jambalaya and cornbread, Ruffins led a jam session in the sanctuary, where the blue walls are decorated with gold fleurs-de-lis, a French symbol that denotes New Orleans' roots.
Full story: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81827_90933_ENG_HTM.htm
More Arts: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81827_ENG_HTM.htm