Episcopal Life Daily March 6, 2008
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Today's Episcopal Life Daily includes:
* TOP STORY - Bishops prepare for Camp Allen gathering; Schofield posts letter of resignation from House of Bishops * TOP STORY - Prayers, protests planned as fifth anniversary of Iraq War approaches * TOP STORY - Charles Hobgood, second Armed Forces bishop, dies in South Carolina * TOP STORY - Episcopal Divinity School enters university partnership * WORLD REPORT - CANADA: Truth commission will help heal residential schools legacy, church and native leaders say * PEOPLE - Steven Charleston to resign as EDS' dean and president * FEATURE - Exiled Bishop Allison Theological College brings hope to Sudan * DAYBOOK - March 7, 2008: Today in Scripture, Prayer, History * CATALYST - Seneca Falls and the Origins of the Women's Rights Movement
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TOP STORIES
Bishops prepare for Camp Allen gathering; Schofield posts letter of resignation from House of Bishops
By Pat McCaughan
[Episcopal News Service] When the House of Bishops gathers for its Camp Allen meeting in Navasota, Texas March 7-12, the agenda will focus on the upcoming July 16-August 3 Lambeth Conference and to engage in faith-based reconciliation training.
The Rev. Canon Brian Cox, rector of Christ the King Church in Santa Barbara, California, and a founder of reconcilers.net, who will lead the bishops in a reconciliation retreat, said, "The expectation is (to begin) thinking about how reconciliation can really become the culture of the Episcopal Church."
"We hope to stimulate a conversation in the House of Bishops about the place of reconciliation in the culture of the Episcopal Church," said Cox, who has engaged faith-based reconciliation training and seminars in the Middle East, the Sudan, Kashmir, Burundi and Korea.
Full story: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/79901_95503_ENG_HTM.htm
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Prayers, protests planned as fifth anniversary of Iraq War approaches
By Mary Frances Schjonberg
[Episcopal News Service] Episcopalians plan to join people from a variety of religious traditions March 7 for what is being called a day of worship and witness in Washington, D.C. and across the country.
The Interfaith Peace Witness is a second annual event and will mark the coming fifth anniversary of the war in Iraq March 19. Part of the first event took place in 2007 at Washington National Cathedral.
At midday on March 7, there will be religious services in different houses of worship in Washington, including Eucharist at Christ Church + Washington Parish, Capitol Hill. The service is being organized by the Episcopal Peace Fellowship's (EPF) Iraq Action group headed by the Rev. Hal Hayek of North Carolina and the Rev. Madeleine Beard of Maryland.
The Rev. Canon Michael Battle, provost and canon theologian of the Cathedral Center of St. Paul in the Diocese of Los Angeles, will preach.
Full story: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/79901_95502_ENG_HTM.htm
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Charles Hobgood, second Armed Forces bishop, dies in South Carolina
By Mary Frances Schjonberg
[Episcopal News Service] Clarence E. Hobgood, the Episcopal Church's second bishop of the Armed Forces, died February 29 in Charlotte, North Carolina.
A memorial service for Hobgood, who was 93 at the time of his death, was held March 5 at St. John's Episcopal Church in Charlotte. George Packard, the current bishop suffragan for chaplaincies (which encompasses the Armed Forces), attended the service.
Hobgood's episcopacy began in 1971. He retired from the post in 1978. He had been an active duty Air Force chaplain for 20 years when he was elected bishop by General Convention, meeting in Houston in 1970. He succeeded Bishop Arnold M. Lewis. Hobgood was consecrated on February 2, 1971 at Washington National Cathedral.
Full story: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/79901_95501_ENG_HTM.htm
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Episcopal Divinity School enters university partnership
Deal will 'secure the financial future of the school,' says dean
By Mary Frances Schjonberg
[Episcopal News Service] Episcopal Divinity School and Lesley University announced March 6 a new partnership that will involve the two schools sharing the EDS campus, in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Lesley University, a 12,000-student, multi-site university, will buy seven buildings from EDS for $33.5 million, while EDS will retain ownership of 13 buildings on its eight acre campus. The partnership also includes academic program enhancements and shared facilities for uses such as library, student dining and services, and campus maintenance, according to an EDS news release.
The deal will do "at least two major things," EDS President and Dean Steven Charleston told ENS. "First, it will help to anchor EDS into a financial foundation that will secure the financial future of the school for many years to come. And the second thing it will do is open EDS up to continue its innovative work in theological education for the church."
EDS' news, rumored for some time, comes within days of announcements of major changes at Bexley Hall and Seabury-Western Theological Seminary, two other Episcopal Church-affiliated seminaries.
Full story: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/79901_95492_ENG_HTM.htm
More Top Stories: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/elife
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WORLD REPORT
CANADA: Truth commission will help heal residential schools legacy, church and native leaders say http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81808_95500_ENG_HTM.htm
More World news: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81808_ENG_HTM.htm
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PEOPLE
Steven Charleston to resign as EDS' dean and president
By Mary Frances Schjonberg
[Episcopal News Service] Episcopal Divinity School (EDS) President and Dean Steven Charleston announced recently that he will resign from the seminary June 30.
The announcement came a week before EDS announced a partnership with Lesley University that will involve the two schools sharing the EDS campus, in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Lesley University, a 12,000-student, multi-site university, will buy seven buildings from EDS for $33.5 million, while EDS will retain ownership of 13 buildings on its eight acre campus. The partnership also includes academic program enhancements and shared facilities for such uses a library, student dining and services, and campus maintenance, according to an EDS news release.
Full story: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81831_95498_ENG_HTM.htm
More People: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81831_ENG_HTM.htm
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FEATURES
Exiled Bishop Allison Theological College brings hope to Sudan
By Richard Lindsley Walton Jr.
[Episcopal Life] Imagine losing your job after 20 years of service for no other reason than your race or your religion. Imagine being driven from your home country with nothing other than what you could carry on your own back. Imagine rebuilding your life in a foreign country only to have it all burned to the ground once again. This is what members of the community of Bishop Allison Theological College have endured over the past 15 years (and in some respects, they are the fortunate ones).
Imagine suffering all of that, and then imagine yourself actually lamenting, "Peace can also a problem."
In 1993, during Sudan's monstrous civil war, Allison College was founded in the southern town of Morsak. Less than a year after the seminary opened, the northern government forced the community from the country. It was apparently believed that forcing it from the country would put an end to the college.
Full story: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/79901_95472_ENG_HTM.htm
More Features: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/78936_ENG_HTM.htm
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DAYBOOK
On March 7, 2008, the Church calendar remembers Perpetua and her Companions, Martyrs at Carthage (d.202).
* 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 March 7, 1530, Pope Clement VII rejected Henry VIII's request to divorce Catherine of Aragon.
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CATALYST
"Seneca Falls and the Origins of the Women's Rights Movement" from Oxford University Press, by Sally G. McMillen, 310 pages, hardcover, c. 2008, $28
[Source: Oxford University Press] In a quiet town of Seneca Falls, New York, over the course of two days in July, 1848, a small group of women and men, led by Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucretia Mott, held a convention that would launch the woman's rights movement and change the course of history. The implications of that remarkable convention would be felt around the world and indeed are still being felt today.
In Seneca Falls and the Origins of the Woman's Rights Movement, the latest contribution to Oxford's acclaimed Pivotal Moments in American History series, Sally McMillen unpacks, for the first time, the full significance of that revolutionary convention and the enormous changes it produced. The book covers 50 years of women's activism, from 1840-1890, focusing on four extraordinary figures--Lucretia Mott, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Lucy Stone, and Susan B. Anthony. McMillen tells the stories of their lives, how they came to take up the cause of women's rights, the astonishing advances they made during their lifetimes, and the lasting and transformative effects of the work they did. At the convention they asserted full equality with men, argued for greater legal rights, greater professional and education opportunities, and the right to vote--ideas considered wildly radical at the time. Indeed, looking back at the convention two years later, Anthony called it "the grandest and greatest reform of all time--and destined to be thus regarded by the future historian." In this lively and warmly written study, Sally McMillen may well be the future historian Anthony was hoping to find.
A vibrant portrait of a major turning point in American women's history, and indeed in human history, Seneca Falls, 1848 is essential reading for anyone wishing to fully understand the origins of the woman's rights movement.
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