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>Episcopal Life Daily
>September 4, 2008

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

>Today's Episcopal Life Daily includes:

* TOP STORY - Dancing figures express ubuntu in winning convention logo
* TOP STORY - Diocese of Louisiana prepares to enter area worst-hit by
hurricane
* DIOCESAN DIGEST - PITTSBURGH: Group plans 'unity event'
* WORLD REPORT - INDIA: Christians say state government wants to punish
them
* WORLD REPORT - RUSSIA/GEORGIA: World church grouping delegation
travels to conflicted region
* FEATURE - Lambeth encounters strengthened relationships: Tensions
linger as bishops discuss covenant, moratoria
* DAYBOOK - September 5, 2008: Today in Scripture, Prayer, History
* CATALYST - Fair Trade for All: How Trade Can Promote Development

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>TOP STORIES

Dancing figures express ubuntu in winning convention logo

>By Daphne Mack

[Episcopal News Service] A swirl of dancing figures, coupled with the
words 'I in you and you in me', was selected as the winning entry in a
contest to select a logo for the 2009 General Convention theme of
ubuntu. 

"I feel humbled, honored and excited about people thinking and talking
about the design and what it means to live, move and work together,"
said the Rev. Paul Fromberg of his winning logo.

The contest asked for designs that would convey the idea of ubuntu
(pronounced oo-boon-too), a Zulu or Xhosa word that describes
humaneness, caring, sharing, and being in harmony with all of creation.

Full story: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/79901_100399_ENG_HTM.htm

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Diocese of Louisiana prepares to enter area worst-hit by hurricane
Parishes south of New Orleans appear to have borne brunt of Gustav

>By Mary Frances Schjonberg

[Episcopal News Service] Officials of the New Orleans-based Episcopal
Diocese of Louisiana hope to enter the civil parish of Terrebonne on
September 5 to survey damage from Hurricane Gustav and assess people's
needs. 
"We assume we have significant church damage in Houma and I just don't
know about Bayou du Large," Bishop Charles Jenkins reported September 4,
speaking from his car as he was making a delivery of gasoline and
generators.

Full story: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/79901_100410_ENG_HTM.htm

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

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>DIOCESAN DIGEST

PITTSBURGH: Group plans 'unity event'

http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81803_100396_ENG_HTM.htm

More Diocesan news: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81803_ENG_HTM.htm

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>WORLD REPORT

INDIA: Christians say state government wants to punish them
http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81808_100398_ENG_HTM.htm

RUSSIA/GEORGIA: World church grouping delegation travels to conflicted
region
http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81808_100397_ENG_HTM.htm

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

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>FEATURES

>Lambeth encounters strengthened relationships

Tensions linger as bishops discuss covenant, moratoria

>By Mary Frances Schjonberg

[Episcopal Life] How one perceives the outcome of the 2008 Lambeth
Conference depends in large part on what criteria are applied.

If the basis for discerning the success of the decennial gathering of
Anglican bishops is whether the bishops resolved the tensions pulling at
the communion, the answer would have to be no.

If, on the other hand, the basis of that discernment is whether the
bishops committed themselves to remaining in communion -- and
communication -- with each other, then the answer would have to be yes.

In between those two extremes remain, as always, many shades of gray and
varying degrees of uncertainty as the communion's members face what will
be a year or more of meetings, conversations and predictions of lines
drawn in the sand.

Full story: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81834_100393_ENG_HTM.htm

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

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>DAYBOOK

>On September 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 September 5, 1847, Anglican divine Henry Francis
Lyte wrote "Abide with Me" on the evening of his last sermon and Holy
Communion at Lower Brixham before going to France. On September 5, 1992,
Bishop David Russell ordained the first women in the Church of the
Province of Southern Africa.

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>CATALYST

"Fair Trade for All: How Trade Can Promote Development" from Oxford
University Press, by Joseph E. Stiglitz and Andrew Charlton, 315 pages,
hardcover, c. 2005, $30

[Oxford University Press] Winner of the Nobel Prize in Economics and
author of the New York Times bestselling book Globalization and Its
Discontents , Joseph E. Stiglitz here joins with fellow economist Andrew
Charlton to offer a challenging and controversial argument about how
globalization can actually help Third World countries to develop and
prosper. 

In Fair Trade For All, Stiglitz and Charlton address one of the key
issues facing world leaders today -- how can the poorer countries of the
world be helped to help themselves through freer, fairer trade? To
answer this question, the authors put forward a radical and realistic
new model for managing trading relationships between the richest and the
poorest countries. Their approach is designed to open up markets in the
interests of all nations and not just the most powerful economies, to
ensure that trade promotes development, and to minimize the costs of
adjustments. Beginning with a brief history of the World Trade
Organization and its agreements, the authors explore the issues and
events which led to the failure of 2003 Cancun summit and the obstacles
that face the successful completion of the Doha Round of negotiations.
Finally they spell out the reforms and principles upon which a
successful agreement must be based. 

Vividly written, highly topical, and packed with insightful analyses,
Fair Trade For All offers a radical new solution to the problems of
world trade. It is a must read for anyone interested in globalization
and development in the Third World.

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