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

>Episcopal Life Daily
>August 4, 2008

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>Today's Episcopal Life Daily includes:

* TOP STORY - Reactions to Lambeth Conference span the spectrum
* TOP STORY - Lengthy reflections document called 'narrative' of Lambeth
experience
* EDUCATION - Eighteenth annual Solo Flight conference set to build
community
* ARTS - Budding artists use hands and feet to create church mural
* DAYBOOK - August 5, 2008: Today in Scripture, Prayer, History
* CATALYST - The Anglican Communion and Homosexuality: A Resource to  Enable
Listening and Dialogue

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>TOP STORIES

Reactions to Lambeth Conference span the spectrum

>By Mary Frances Schjonberg

[Episcopal News Service, Canterbury] The buses bearing the 2008 Lambeth
Conference's 670 purple cassock-clad bishops had barely arrived at
Canterbury Cathedral for the 18-day gathering's final Eucharist August 3
when reactions to the event and its final reflections document began to
appear.

The reactions ranged across the spectrum of opinion, with some urging
decisive action in concert with the comments made in the reflections
document and some cautioning against making legislation out of a  document
that is a self-described narrative of the conference.

Noticeably quiet on that day was the Global Anglican Future Conference,
which held a June gathering of conservative Anglicans and Episcopalians  in
Jerusalem. Its silence was noteworthy considering that the absence of  the
so-called GAFCON bishops is referenced in the introductory section of  the
reflections document.

Full story: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/79901_99775_ENG_HTM.htm

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Lengthy reflections document called 'narrative' of Lambeth experience

Topics range from the environment and peace in Korea to sexuality and
covenant

>By Mary Frances Schjonberg

[Episcopal News Service, Canterbury] A 44-page document meant to reflect  the
experience of the bishops who participated in the 2008 Lambeth  Conference is
filled with many details from the many conversations that took place  during
the 18-day gathering in Canterbury -- and many important statements  about
what was discussed.

Yet it admittedly cannot replicate the experience which it describes.

Perth Archbishop Roger Herft, who chaired the document's writing  committee,
wrote in the introduction that the end result is a narrative of "our  lived
experience and the open and honest discussions we have had together."

Full story: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/79901_99774_ENG_HTM.htm

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

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>EDUCATION

Eighteenth annual Solo Flight conference set to build community

[Episcopal News Service] Single adults of all ages can share experiences  and
gather ideas for "creating communities of ones" at the 18th annual Solo
Flight conference, August 29-September 1 at Kanuga Conferences, Inc., in
Hendersonville, North Carolina.

Solo Flight is an intergenerational conference for single adults that  offers
opportunities for spiritual growth, learning, fellowship and networking  with
those who share similar values.

According to Kay Collier McLaughlin, Solo Flight founder and  coordinator,
this year's conference will share ideas of how to go about building such
communities, both individually and in parishes.

Full story: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/78650_99776_ENG_HTM.htm

More Education: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/80263_93222_ENG_HTM.htm

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>ARTS

Budding artists use hands and feet to create church mural

>By Jerry Hames

[Episcopal Life] Again this spring, as they had done in two previous  years,
the children in Mr. Baldwin's church school class created a mural -- but
this time with a difference. Like the two others, it measures 12 feet by  8
feet.

But in creating this year's "Trinity" wall hanging, the 10- to  12-year-old
budding artists decided to use their hands and feet instead of paint
brushes. Their finished creation, blessed by Bishop Gene Robinson in  June
during his visit to Christ Church, Exeter, New Hampshire, now hangs in  the
parish hall for all to admire.

"We seem to have turned this into an annual event," said Peter Baldwin,
teacher for the fifth- and sixth-graders, who now is "prepping" the  first
mural that was created in 2006 so it can be displayed outside the  church.
"We have space for five murals inside the church and five outside, so I  have
a few years yet to go," he joked.

Full story: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81827_99777_ENG_HTM.htm

More Arts: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81827_ENG_HTM.htm

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>DAYBOOK

>On August 5, 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 August 5, 1633, Archbishop of Canterbury George  Abbot
died at Croydon.

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>CATALYST

"The Anglican Communion and Homosexuality: A Resource to Enable  Listening
and Dialogue" from the Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, edited  by
Philip Groves, 332 pages, paperback, c. 2008, $26

[Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge] Anglicans believe that the
Bible, the tradition of the Church and human reason are the channels  through
which we can hear God speaking to us.

This volume offers clear and accurate resources intended to help  bishops,
clergy and lay people in the Anglican Communion to listen to God and to  one
another on the subject of human sexuality, taking into account in  particular
Resolution 1.10 of the 1998 Lambeth Conference, which encourages a  readiness
'to listen to the experience of homosexual persons'.  This book is a
contribution to the Anglican Communion's Listening Process.

The contributors to this book are women and men who reflect the  geographical
and theological diversity of the Communion.  They include Bishops,  clergy
and laity with a wide range of experience and expertise.

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