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>Episcopal Life Daily
>August 7, 2008

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

>Today's Episcopal Life Daily includes:

* TOP STORY - In live webcast, Presiding Bishop says making
connections was a highlight of Lambeth
* FEATURE - Reflective spaces: Religious orders seek God in each other
and the world
* DAYBOOK - August 8, 2008: Today in Scripture, Prayer, History
* CATALYST - Surprised by Hope: Rethinking Heaven, the Resurrection,
and the Mission of the Church

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>TOP STORIES

In live webcast, Presiding Bishop says making connections was a
highlight of Lambeth

>By Solange De Santis

[Episcopal News Service] Making connections and forging relationships
with Anglican bishops from around the world was a highlight of the
just-concluded Lambeth Conference
(http://www.lambethconference.org/index.cfm), said Presiding Bishop
Katharine Jefferts Schori in a live webcast on August 7.

Also appearing on the webcast from the Episcopal Church Center in New
York City was Bishop Mark Sisk of the Diocese of New York
(http://www.dioceseny.org/), who said the gathering was "an
opportunity to put a face to this communion."

The conference, which took place in Canterbury, England from July 16
to August 3, is a once-per-decade meeting of the bishops of the
Anglican Communion that is held at the invitation of the Archbishop of
Canterbury. The 2008 conference drew 670 bishops from 37 of the 38
Anglican provinces; about 135 bishops of the Episcopal Church
registered.

Full story: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/79901_99849_ENG_HTM.htm

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

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>FEATURES

>Reflective spaces

Religious orders seek God in each other and the world

>By Patricia Colby Nakamura

[Episcopal Life] Silence descends as a blessing. After the noise of
days and the busyness of the world, it calms and heals, allowing mind
and soul to find themselves, to reintegrate. Elijah knew that God was
not in the whirlwind or the storm. God was in the still, small voice,
best heard when silence surrounds. Strangely, beautifully, it is
possible to take one's own silence, for a time, back out into the loud
world.

Almost since the Episcopal Church planted its Anglican tradition on
our stern and rockbound shore, monastic communities have been present.
Some came to America as colonies of their English originals; some
formed as offshoots of Roman Catholic orders.

Some are new, quietly living in a church that hardly knows of their
existence.

Full story: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81834_99829_ENG_HTM.htm

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

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>DAYBOOK

On August 8, 2008, the Church calendar remembers Dominic, priest and
friar (1170-1221).

* 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 8, 1897, Bishop James Theodore Holly
ordained P. Benjamin Isaac Wilson to serve the West Indians, and with
this ordination the Anglican Church in the Dominican Republic was
born.

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>CATALYST

"Surprised by Hope: Rethinking Heaven, the Resurrection, and the
Mission of the Church" from HarperCollins Publishers, by N. T. Wright,
332 pages, hardcover, c. 2008, $24.95

[HarperCollins Publishers] For years Christians have been asking, "If
you died tonight, do you know where you would go?" It turns out that
many believers have been giving the wrong answer. It is not heaven.

Award-winning author N. T. Wright outlines the present confusion about
a Christian's future hope and shows how it is deeply intertwined with
how we live today. Wright, who is one of today's premier Bible
scholars, asserts that Christianity's most distinctive idea is bodily
resurrection. He provides a magisterial defense for a literal
resurrection of Jesus and shows how this became the cornerstone for
the Christian community's hope in the bodily resurrection of all
people at the end of the age. Wright then explores our expectation of
"new heavens and a new earth," revealing what happens to the dead
until then and what will happen with the "second coming" of Jesus. For
many, including many Christians, all this will come as a great
surprise.

Wright convincingly argues that what we believe about life after death
directly affects what we believe about life before death. For if God
intends to renew the whole creation-and if this has already begun in
Jesus's resurrection-the church cannot stop at "saving souls" but must
anticipate the eventual renewal by working for God's kingdom in the
wider world, bringing healing and hope in the present life.

Lively and accessible, this book will surprise and excite all who are
interested in the meaning of life, not only after death but before it.

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