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["Matthew Davies" <mdavies@episcopalchurch.org>]

>Episcopal Life Daily
>May 21, 2008

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

>Today's Episcopal Life Daily includes:

* TOP STORY - New advertising focuses on faith in action 
* TOP STORY - Anglican Churches in the Americas plans February mission
gathering
* WORLD REPORT - BRITAIN: Religious leaders critical of vote to allow
embryo research
* WORLD REPORT - EUROPE: 'Faith and health go together,' Tutu tells U.N.
in Geneva
* PEOPLE - David Richardson installed as new director of the Anglican
Centre in Rome
* WEEKS AHEAD - Upcoming special events and services
* SPIRITUAL REFLECTION - Second Sunday After Pentecost, Proper 3 - Year
A [RCL]
* DAYBOOK - May 22, 2008: Today in Scripture, Prayer, History
* CATALYST - Disciples of the Street: the Promise of a Hip Hop Church

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>TOP STORIES

>New advertising focuses on faith in action 

[Episcopal News Service] Highlighting community outreach across the
Episcopal Church and the theme "Put Your Faith to Work," new print and
video advertisements are scheduled to debut starting May 22 for a summer
run in public media. 

The first of a series of print ads -- headlined "Get Closer to God.
Slice Carrots," -- is scheduled to appear in USA Today May 22-23. The
accompanying video spot is targeted for the CNN Headline News/Airport
Channel during peak holiday travel times, including the Memorial Day
weekend.

The ads point readers and viewers to a dedicated website, http://www.
putyourfaithtowork.org, which includes links for locating local
congregations churchwide. The site also provides links to
service-focused ministries within the Episcopal Church. 

Full story: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/79901_97277_ENG_HTM.htm

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Anglican Churches in the Americas plans February mission gathering

>By Mary Frances Schjonberg

[Episcopal News Service] The first large-scale gathering in the Anglican
Churches of the Americas will be a February 2009 conference on "mutual
responsibility and mission."

The organizers hope the gathering will help "to continue to celebrate
our relationships through friendship, prayer, common worship, and to
focus on God's common mission in the world," according to the draft of a
"save the date" letter.

The conference will take place during the week of February 22 in San
Juan, Costa Rica. Exact dates during that week are still to be
determined.

Full story: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/79901_97274_ENG_HTM.htm

More Top Stories: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/elife

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>WORLD REPORT

BRITAIN: Religious leaders critical of vote to allow embryo research
http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81808_97272_ENG_HTM.htm

EUROPE: 'Faith and health go together,' Tutu tells U.N. in Geneva
http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81808_97273_ENG_HTM.htm

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

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>PEOPLE

David Richardson installed as new director of the Anglican Centre in
Rome

[ACNS, Episcopal News Service] In the splendor of the Church of Santa
Maria Sopra Minerva, Rome, the Very Rev. David Richardson, former dean
of Melbourne, Australia was installed and blessed as the new director of
the Anglican Centre in Rome (ACR) on May 7, 2008. He also will serve as
the Archbishop of Canterbury's personal representative to the Holy See
(The Vatican and the Pope). The use of this church, where the sacred
remains of St. Catherine of Siena rest, is the titular church of
Cardinal Cormac Murphy O'Connor of Westminster, and was offered to the
Anglicans for this special service.

Cardinal Walter Kasper, head of the Pontifical Council for Promoting
Christian Unity, participated in the liturgy and gave a warm welcome to
the new director. He was accompanied by the Rev. Canon Monsignor Donald
Bolen. Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams delivered the homily and
the lesson was read by Fung Yi Wong, a member of the ACR board
representing the Anglican Consultative Council, the Communion's main
legislative body.

Bishop Pierre Whalon of the Convocation of American Churches in Europe
was present. The American Friends of the ACR were well represented by
Southern Ohio Bishop Tom Breidenthal and his wife, Margaret; the Very
Rev. John P. Downey, dean of the Cathedral of St. Paul in Erie,
Pennsylvania, and his wife, Sharon, who is the organist and choir
director at the cathedral; John Ousley and Naomi Hirabayashi from Church
of the Incarnation in New York City; the Rev. Bill Franklin, who had
served as the interim director of the ACR; Keith Pecklers, Mary Reath,
Walter Lippincott, and Jane Shapiro, all from New Jersey.

Full story: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81831_97270_ENG_HTM.htm

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

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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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>SPIRITUAL REFLECTIONS

Second Sunday After Pentecost, Proper 3 - Year A [RCL]

Isaiah 49:8-16a; Psalm 131; 1 Corinthians 4:1-5; Matthew 6:24-34

>By Anthony F.M. Clavier

[Sermons That Work] "So do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will
bring worries of its own. Today's trouble is enough for today." At first
sight the lessons today seem to give us confusing messages. On the one
hand we are called by Saint Paul "stewards of the mysteries of God." On
the other hand Jesus tells us not to worry or at least about anything
long term. Indeed, in another passage in Philippians, St. Paul instructs
his hearers not to worry about anything but instead to pray. That all
sounds very pious, but reality seems different. 

No one needs to tell us that worry and stress are the blight of our
lives. What makes it worse is that whereas once we had an extended
family with which to share worry and stress and to receive comfort and
help, all too often today we seem to be on our own. In a recent poll, a
huge number responded that loneliness was one of the negative aspects of
life. It's all very well, we may be thinking, for us to be told to be
like the lilies of the field or even the birds of the air. But we live
in today's world. 

As if we don't have enough to worry about all by ourselves, our
television sets daily, even hourly, suggest other worries and stresses.
If the proverbial person from outer space sought to evaluate human life
by watching television advertisements, the impression would be that we
are chronically ill and dysfunctional. 

Full reflection: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/82478_97189_ENG_HTM.htm

More Spiritual Reflections:

http://www.episcopalchurch.org/82457_ENG_HTM.htm

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>DAYBOOK

>On May 22, 2008...

* 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 May 22, 1851, Edwyn Hoskyns, Anglican bishop and
social reformer, was born at Aston-Tirrold, Berkshire. As Bishop of
Southwell, England, from 1905 until his death in 1925, he devoted
himself to improving labor conditions for the working class.

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>CATALYST

"Disciples of the Street: the Promise of a Hip Hop Church" from Church
Publishing, Inc., by Eric Gutierrez, 180 pages, hardcover, c. 2008, $20

[Church Publishing, Inc.] "This is a stunner. Eric Gutierrez opens
closed windows of the soul and delivers an utterly challenging,
refreshingly original work. Read it." -- Malcolm Boyd, author of Are You
Running with me, Jesus?

What would cause a small, 140 year-old, Episcopal Church in the heart of
the South Bronx to begin offering hip-hop services? How would the
church, both locally and nationally, react? Utilizing scores or
interviews and months of research, Disciples of the Street, is the story
of one Church's engagement with hip-hop religion, the conflicts that
ensued, and the resulting birth of something much larger. Following the
start of that small hip hop religious movement from its inception in the
summer of 2004, through its building of a national profile, in a story
that moves from the birthplace of rap to youth detention facilities in
Virginia to the New South and all manner of places in between, Gutierrez
looks deeply into the questions of what hip-hop has to say to the
traditional church and what the church might say to hip-hop culture.
Disciples of the Street is a compelling story well told and the
definitive look at the issues facing a movement that's growing in
popularity and gaining traction around the country.

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