Episcopal Life Daily April 10, 2008
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Today's Episcopal Life Daily includes:
* TOP STORY - Episcopal Communicators meet in Seattle * WEEKS AHEAD - Upcoming special events and services * DAYBOOK - April 11, 2008: Today in Scripture, Prayer, History * CATALYST - Quest for the Living God: Mapping Frontiers in the Theology of God
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TOP STORIES
Episcopal Communicators meet in Seattle
Annual conference explores 'Emerging Communications for an Emerging Church'
By Mary Frances Schjonberg
[Episcopal News Service] As the 35th annual meeting of Episcopal Communicators got underway April 9 in Seattle, Washington, participants began to experience the conference's theme of "Emerging Communications for an Emerging Church."
They gathered for an emerging Episcopal Church Eucharist led by members of Church of the Apostles, a Seattle congregation that describes itself as an "incarnational, monastic, Christian community, affiliated with God, through Jesus Christ, in the power of the Spirit." It also claims affiliation with both of what its website calls the Episcopal Church and Evangelical Lutheran Church in America "tribes."
The Eucharist, held in the ballroom of the Hotel Deca, included guitars and drums, lyrics of new and traditional music projected on a screen above the conference-table altar and an "Open Spaces" time of meditation and prayer stations in place of a traditional sermon.
Full story: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/79901_96386_ENG_HTM.htm
More Top Stories: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/elife
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WEEKS AHEAD
A round-up of upcoming special events, services, concerts and diocesan conventions taking place throughout the Episcopal Church is available at http://www.episcopalchurch.org/78650_1669_ENG_HTM.htm
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DAYBOOK
On April 11...
* 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 April 11, 146, Septimius Severus, emperor of Rome from 193 to 211, was born. He persecuted the Christian Church although he had once been friendly to the Christian cause.
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CATALYST
"Quest for the Living God: Mapping Frontiers in the Theology of God" from the Continuum International Publishing Group, Inc., by Elizabeth A. Johnson, 234 pages, hardcover, c. 2008, $24.95
[The Continuum International Publishing Group, Inc.] From the author's introduction: Since the middle of the 20th century there has been a renaissance of new insights into God in the Christian tradition. On different continents, under pressure from historical events and social conditions, people of faith have glimpsed the living God in fresh ways. It is not that a wholly different God is discovered from the One believed in by previous generations. Christian faith does not believe in a new God but, finding itself in new situations, seeks the presence of God there. Aspects long-forgotten are brought into new relationships with current events, and the depths of divine compassion are appreciated in ways not previously imagined.
This book further explores these discoveries. After the first chapter describes Elizabeth Johnson's point of departure and the rules of engagement, each succeeding chapter distills a discrete idea of God. Featured are transcendental, political, liberation, feminist, black, Hispanic, interreligious, and ecological theologies, ending with the particular Christian idea of the one God as Trinity. The aim of the book is to increase the light of theological knowledge, "ever ancient, ever new," among a wide circle of people, including students, pastoral ministers, and everyone who questions, wonders, or thinks about their faith.
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More Catalyst: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/83842_ENG_HTM.htm