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

>Episcopal Life Daily
>September 23, 2008

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

>Today's Episcopal Life Daily includes:

* TOP STORY - Wall Street's woes come to church
* TOP STORY - In Sweden, Presiding Bishop joins 50th anniversary
celebrations of women's ordination
* DIOCESAN DIGEST - MINNESOTA: Historic Shoe Drive underway
* WORLD REPORT - CANADA: Church leaders ask Prime Minister to recommit
to MDGs
* MULTIMEDIA - Image Gallery: Presiding Bishop visits Church of Sweden
* MULTIMEDIA - Video: Church of Sweden Archbishop Anders Wejryd
* MULTIMEDIA - Video: Presiding Bishop addresses Church of Sweden's
General Synod
* DAYBOOK - September 24, 2008: Today in Scripture, Prayer, History
* CATALYST - The Three Trillion Dollar War: The True Cost of the Iraq
Conflict

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>TOP STORIES

>Wall Street's woes come to church

Episcopalians consider new economic landscape, extend help to others

>By Mary Frances Schjonberg

[Episcopal News Service] As employees and investors reeled after a week
of calamity in financial markets, Episcopalians are among the many still
sorting out what the news means to them, their congregations and their
neighbors. 

Much of the immediate impact of Wall Street's financial woes were felt
in and around New York. Due to turmoil on the mortgage and credit
markets in recent days, the Lehman Brothers investment firm went
bankrupt and brokerage giant Merrill Lynch was sold to Bank of America.
In addition, the U.S. government acquired federally-chartered mortgage
finance companies Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac and took control of
troubled insurance firm American International Group.

"In New York City, almost like nowhere else in the world, the air we
breathe is filled with nearly visible molecules of money," the Rev.
Buddy Stallings, vicar of St. Bartholomew's Church in midtown Manhattan,
told the congregation on September 21. "From the days of the
free-trading Dutch, money has been the business of this city."

Full story: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/79901_101014_ENG_HTM.htm

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In Sweden, Presiding Bishop joins 50th anniversary celebrations of
women's ordination

>By Matthew Davies

[Episcopal News Service, Stockholm] The [Lutheran] Church of Sweden
welcomed Presiding Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori of the Episcopal
Church to Stockholm and Uppsala September 22-23 to join the anniversary
celebrations of its historic decision 50 years ago to ordain women to
the priesthood.

Members of the Swedish royal family -- His Majesty King Carl XIV Gustaf,
Her Majesty Queen Silvia, and Her Royal Highness Crown Princess Victoria
-- were among guests attending a September 23 celebratory Eucharist and
jubilee service at Uppsala Cathedral, a 13th century Gothic building in
the center of Sweden's main university city.

Following the service, Jefferts Schori delivered a greeting during the
formal opening of the Church of Sweden's General Synod.

Full story: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/79901_101013_ENG_HTM.htm

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

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>DIOCESAN DIGEST

MINNESOTA: Historic Shoe Drive underway

http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81803_101010_ENG_HTM.htm

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

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>WORLD REPORT

CANADA: Church leaders ask Prime Minister to recommit to MDGs
http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81808_101009_ENG_HTM.htm

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

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>MULTIMEDIA

Image Gallery: Presiding Bishop visits Church of Sweden

[Episcopal News Service] An image gallery highlighting the [Lutheran]
Church of Sweden's anniversary celebrations of its historic decision 50
years ago to ordain women to the priesthood is available at
http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81991_100377_ENG_HTM.htm

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Video: Church of Sweden Archbishop Anders Wejryd

[Episcopal News Service] Church of Sweden Archbishop Anders Wejryd
speaks about the historic decision 50 years ago to ordain women to the
priesthood.

Multimedia files are available at

http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81231_ENG_HTM.htm

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Video: Presiding Bishop addresses Church of Sweden's General Synod

[Episcopal News Service] Presiding Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori
delivers a greeting during the formal opening of the General Synod of
the Church of Sweden as part of the celebration of its historic decision
50 years ago to ordain women to the priesthood.

Multimedia files are available at

http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81231_ENG_HTM.htm

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>DAYBOOK

>On September 24, 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 24, 1867, 76 bishops from all over the
Anglican Communion met at Lambeth Palace for the first Lambeth
Conference. On September 24, 1868, Henry H. Milman, priest, scholar and
hymnist, died. Milman was buried in St Paul's Cathedral in London.

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>CATALYST

"The Three Trillion Dollar War: The True Cost of the Iraq Conflict" from
W. W. Norton & Company, Inc., by Joseph E. Stiglitz and Linda J. Bilmes,
357 pages, paperback, c. 2008, $15.95

[W. W. Norton & Company, Inc.] America has already spent close to a
trillion dollars on the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, but there are
hundreds of billions of bills still due -- including staggering costs to
take care of the thousands of injured veterans, providing them with
disability benefits and health care. In this sobering study, Nobel Prize
winner Joseph E. Stiglitz and Harvard University's Linda J. Bilmes
reveal a wide range of costs that have been hidden from U.S. taxpayers
and left out of the debate about our involvement in Iraq. That
involvement, the authors conservatively estimate, will cost us more than
$3 trillion. 

"Stiglitz and Bilmes have clearly demonstrated the need for Congress and
the administration to ensure that those making sacrifices today will see
those sacrifices honored in the future." -- Dave W. Gorman, executive
director, Disabled American Veterans

To order: Episcopal Books and Resources, online at
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More Catalyst: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/83842_ENG_HTM.htm