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

>Episcopal Life Daily
>September 9, 2008

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

>Today's Episcopal Life Daily includes:

* TOP STORY - Caribbean continues to suffer during hurricane season
* DIOCESAN DIGEST - SPOKANE: Camp 'No Limits' teaches confidence,
limitless possibilities
* DAYBOOK - September 10, 2008: Today in Scripture, Prayer, History
* CATALYST - Faith of My Fathers: A Family Memoir

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>TOP STORIES

Caribbean continues to suffer during hurricane season

>Situation in Haiti is 'dire,' ERD says

>By Mary Frances Schjonberg

[Episcopal News Service] Hurricane Ike battered Haiti and Cuba September
8 and 9, causing more damage in the Caribbean to which Episcopal Relief
and Development (http://www.er-d.org) and other Episcopalians are trying
to respond.

Ike killed four people on Cuba September 8 and forced at least one
million others to flee, the New York Times reported
(http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/10/world/americas/10Ike.html?_r=1&hp&ore
f=slogin).

The storm made landfall in Cuba late on September 7, the Times reported,
with Category 3 winds of 111 miles an hour and greater. It raked the
island on September 8, turned slightly out to sea and made a second
landfall in western Cuba on the morning of September 9 in the extreme
southeastern part of Pinar del Rio province, according to the National
Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.

Full story: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/79901_100528_ENG_HTM.htm

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

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>DIOCESAN DIGEST

SPOKANE: Camp 'No Limits' teaches confidence, limitless possibilities
http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81803_100490_ENG_HTM.htm

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

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>DAYBOOK

On September 10, the Church calendar remembers Alexander Crummell
(1819-1898).

* 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 10, 1937, Burnett Hillman Streeter,
Anglican New Testament textual scholar, died.

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>CATALYST

"Faith of My Fathers: A Family Memoir" from Random House, Inc., by John
McCain with Mark Salter, 349 pages, hardcover, c. 1999, $15

[Random House, Inc.] John McCain is one of the most admired leaders in
the United States government, but his deeply felt memoir of family and
war is not a political one and ends before his election to Congress.
With candor and ennobling power, McCain tells a story that, in the words
of Newsweek, "makes the other presidential candidates look like
pygmies."

John McCain learned about life and honor from his grandfather and
father, both four-star admirals in the U.S. Navy. This is a memoir about
their lives, their heroism, and the ways that sons are shaped and
enriched by their fathers.

John McCain's grandfather was a gaunt, hawk-faced man known as Slew by
his fellow officers and, affectionately, as Popeye by the sailors who
served under him. McCain Sr. played the horses, drank bourbon and water,
and rolled his own cigarettes with one hand. More significant, he was
one of the navy's greatest commanders, and led the strongest aircraft
carrier force of the Third Fleet in key battles during World War II.

John McCain's father followed a similar path, equally distinguished by
heroic service in the navy, as a submarine commander during World War
II. McCain Jr. was a slightly built man, but like his father, he earned
the respect and affection of his men. He, too, rose to the rank of
four-star admiral, making the McCains the first family in American
history to achieve that distinction. McCain Jr.'s final assignment was
as commander of all U.S. forces in the Pacific during the Vietnam War.

It was in the Vietnam War that John McCain III faced the most difficult
challenge of his life. A naval aviator, he was shot down over Hanoi in
1967 and seriously injured. When Vietnamese military officers realized
he was the son of a top commander, they offered McCain early release in
an effort to embarrass the United States. Acting from a sense of honor
taught him by his father and the U.S. Naval Academy, McCain refused the
offer. He was tortured, held in solitary confinement, and imprisoned for
five and a half years.

Faith of My Fathers is about what McCain learned from his grandfather
and father, and how their example enabled him to survive those hard
years. It is a story of three imperfect men who faced adversity and
emerged with their honor intact. Ultimately, Faith of My Fathers shows
us, with great feeling and appreciation, what fathers give to their
sons, and what endures.

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More Catalyst: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/83842_ENG_HTM.htm