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From "Matthew Davies" <mdavies@episcopalchurch.org>
Date Fri, 18 Jan 2008 05:39:51 -0500

Episcopal Life Daily January 17, 2008

Episcopal Life Online is available at http://www.episcopalchurch.org/elife.

Today's Episcopal Life Daily includes:

* TOP STORY - Antoinette (Toni) Daniels to lead Partnerships Center * TOP STORY - NYC's largest luncheon program, St. Paul's at Ground Zero featured in 'Episcopal Life Focus' multicast * DIOCESAN DIGEST - FORT WORTH: Iker comments on Presiding Bishop's letter * DIOCESAN DIGEST - MINNESOTA: New MDG campaign aims to spark transformation * DIOCESAN DIGEST - PENNSYLVANIA: Eucharistic workshop offered for clergy * WORLD REPORT - KENYA: Faith leaders tell politicians: 'Care for your people, not selves' * PEOPLE - R. Lansing Hicks, professor emeritus of Old Testament at Yale Divinity School, dies at 86 * PEOPLE - Barbara Brown Taylor is 2008 Harvey Lecturer at Seminary of the Southwest * FEATURE - Baptism a 'family affair' for four generations in California * DAYBOOK - January 18, 2008: Today in Scripture, Prayer, History * CATALYST - The Vestry Handbook, Revised Edition

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TOP STORIES

Antoinette (Toni) Daniels to lead Partnerships Center

[ELO] Antoinette (Toni) Daniels, director of Learning and Leadership with the Episcopal Church Foundation (ECF), has been named center director for Partnerships at the Episcopal Church Center.

She fills the fourth and final position created to achieve new levels of service and collaboration at the church center.

Featuring a new Diocesan Services unit, the Partnerships Center includes Anglican Communion Relationships, Ecumenical and Interfaith work, grants and covenants, and the United Thank Offering (UTO).

Full story: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/79901_94088_ENG_HTM.htm

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NYC's largest luncheon program, St. Paul's at Ground Zero featured in 'Episcopal Life Focus' multicast

[Episcopal News Service] The January edition of "Episcopal Life Focus" -- a half-hour video "multicast" featuring church mission, ministries and news -- is posted for online viewing at http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81231_89777_ENG_HTM.htm.

This month's edition features a close look at the Holy Apostles Soup Kitchen, NYC's largest luncheon program which serves not only the homeless population of New York but also a growing demographic, the working poor.

Anchored by Episcopal Life Media executive editor Jan Nunley and produced by Michael Collins, the January Focus edition also includes a conversation with Maureen Shea, director of the Episcopal Church's Office of Government Relations, as well as exploring the work of Shea's Washington D.C.-based staff.

An additional segment includes a look at the ever-changing congregation of St. Paul's Chapel at Ground Zero, which continues to provide a place of public grieving for those lost on September 11, 2001 while offering an innovative musical Eucharist every Sunday morning.

Full story: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/79901_94081_ENG_HTM.htm

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DIOCESAN DIGEST

FORT WORTH: Iker comments on Presiding Bishop's letter http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81803_94037_ENG_HTM.htm

MINNESOTA: New MDG campaign aims to spark transformation http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81803_94068_ENG_HTM.htm

PENNSYLVANIA: Eucharistic workshop offered for clergy http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81803_94069_ENG_HTM.htm

More Diocesan news: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81803_ENG_HTM.htm

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WORLD REPORT

KENYA: Faith leaders tell politicians: 'Care for your people, not selves' http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81808_94074_ENG_HTM.htm

More World news: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81808_ENG_HTM.htm

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PEOPLE

R. Lansing Hicks, professor emeritus of Old Testament at Yale Divinity School, dies at 86

[Episcopal News Service] The Rev. R. Lansing Hicks, professor emeritus of Old Testament and former associate dean of academic affairs at Yale Divinity School (YDS), died January 14 in Hamden, Connecticut, after a long illness. He was 86.

Services will be held at Trinity Church on the New Haven Green on Saturday, January 19, at 11 a.m. Plans are also underway for a memorial service at the Divinity School at a later date.

Hicks joined the faculty of YDS in 1971, following the affiliation between YDS and Berkeley Divinity School (BDS), and retired in 1990. He had been appointed to the BDS faculty in 1958.

Full story: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81831_94063_ENG_HTM.htm

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Barbara Brown Taylor is 2008 Harvey Lecturer at Seminary of the Southwest

[ETSS] The Rev. Barbara Brown Taylor will explore "Sabbath -- Self-Care or the Mending of the World?" during her March 3 Harvey Lecture at the Episcopal Theological Seminary of the Southwest (ETSS) in Austin, Texas.

Taylor, renowned preacher, author and teacher, will be on the seminary campus all day -- preaching at the 11:15 a.m. chapel service and beginning her Harvey Lecture at 6:30 p.m. in Knapp Auditorium. Both events are open to the public without charge. Seating in Knapp Auditorium is very limited and its doors will open at 6 p.m. -- 30 minutes before the lecture begins. Further details and an email link for questions is available here.

After completing 15 years in full-time parish ministry, Taylor joined the Piedmont College faculty as Butman professor of religion 11 years ago. She also became adjunct professor of Christian spirituality at Columbia Theological Seminary in Georgia in 2001.

Full story: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81831_94053_ENG_HTM.htm

More People: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81831_ENG_HTM.htm

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FEATURES

Baptism a 'family affair' for four generations in California

By Pat McCaughan

[Episcopal News Service, Tustin, California] When Jennifer Wierks of Tustin, California, decided to be baptized along with her two young children, so did her parents, and her 90-year-old grandmother.

On Sunday, January 13, four generations of the Orange County, California family lined up at the font at St. Paul's Episcopal Church, amid cheers from the congregation.

"I had intended it to be a low-key event," recalled Wierks, 38, who was surprised that her desire to have Jonathan, 3, and Jane, 1, baptized had blossomed into a full-fledged family affair. "To me, it's a very personal decision although I did want the family to participate."

And participate, they did.

Full story: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81834_94070_ENG_HTM.htm

More Features: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/78936_ENG_HTM.htm

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DAYBOOK

On January 18, 2008, the Church calendar remembers the Confession of Saint Peter the Apostle.

* 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 January 18, 1993, Herbert Thompson, Jr. was formally installed as the eighth diocesan bishop of Southern Ohio.

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CATALYST

"The Vestry Handbook, Revised Edition" from Church Publishing, Inc., by Christopher L. Webber, 126 pages, paperback, c. 2000, $12

[Source: Church Publishing, Inc.] This book contains everything you need to know about vestry membership in one volume. This updated classic manual includes sample job descriptions, new material on the spiritual life of vestry members, canons approved in 2000, additional information on dealing with sexual abuse in the parish, managing conflict, and handling money.

To order: Episcopal Books and Resources, online at http://www.episcopalbookstore.org, or call 800-903-5544 -- or visit your local Episcopal bookseller, http://www.episcopalbooksellers.org

More Catalyst: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/83842_ENG_HTM.htm


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