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

>Episcopal Life Daily
>September 29, 2008

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

>Today's Episcopal Life Daily includes:

* TOP STORY - Bulletin inserts report on Episcopal/Anglican recommitment
to MDGs
* DIOCESAN DIGEST - FORT WORTH: Realignment resolution proposed, Iker
gives 10 reason to approve
* DIOCESAN DIGEST - SOUTHERN VIRGINIA: Hollerith elected bishop on sixth
ballot
* DIOCESAN DIGEST - VIRGINIA: Diocese, Episcopal Church settle property
disputes with two congregations
* WORLD REPORT - ENGLAND: Archbishop of Canterbury offers hopes and
prayers for Jewish New Year
* MISSION - 'Beijing Circles' gathering discusses female empowerment
* DAYBOOK - September 30, 2008: Today in Scripture, Prayer, History
* CATALYST - What Size are God's Shoes: Kids, Chaos, and the Spiritual
Life

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>TOP STORIES

Bulletin inserts report on Episcopal/Anglican recommitment to MDGs

[Episcopal Life Weekly] Episcopal Life Weekly bulletin inserts for
October 5 will feature a report on the Episcopal/Anglican response to
the United Nations "high-level event" in support of the Millennium
Development Goals. Presiding Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori and
Archbishop of York John Sentamu led a service of recommitment at St.
John the Divine Cathedral in New York on September 25 as U.N. leaders
met to assess progress towards the 2015 target date for fulfillment of
the eight MDGs.   

Bulletin inserts are available at

http://www.episcopalchurch.org/95270_ENG_HTM.htm

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

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>DIOCESAN DIGEST

FORT WORTH: Realignment resolution proposed, Iker gives 10 reason to
approve
http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81803_101178_ENG_HTM.htm

VIRGINIA: Diocese, Episcopal Church settle property disputes with two
congregations
http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81803_101179_ENG_HTM.htm

SOUTHERN VIRGINIA: Hollerith elected bishop on sixth ballot
http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81803_101127_ENG_HTM.htm

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

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>WORLD REPORT

ENGLAND: Archbishop of Canterbury offers hopes and prayers for Jewish
New Year
http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81808_101128_ENG_HTM.htm

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

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>MISSION

'Beijing Circles' gathering discusses female empowerment

[Episcopal Divinity School] Women from across the Northeast braved
torrential rains to travel to Episcopal Divinity School in Cambridge,
Massachusetts on September 26 to 27 for the Beijing Circles Gathering.
Brought together by a desire to explore ways women can work together to
bring about positive change related to issues affecting women locally
and globally, the 50 women attending this conference shared an interest
in learning about the Beijing Circles resource. Developed by Anglican
Women's Empowerment (AWE) with support from the Office for Women's
Ministries, Beijing Circles encourage local and global action around the
Beijing Platform for Action, a blueprint for women's rights adopted in
1995 at the Fourth World Conference on Women, in Beijing.

Mary McCarthy, from Grace Episcopal Church in Amherst, Massachusetts, an
ardent supporter of the Millennium Development Goals, came to the
conference seeking ways to encourage dialogue between Amherst's
interfaith and secular communities. A recent experience with an
interfaith scripture reading group was "both enlightening and
frustrating," said McCarthy. "While the act of listening was powerful, I
missed the opportunity to talk about what we were hearing. At last
summer's Society of the Companions of the Holy Cross' conference, Phoebe
Griswold talked about Beijing Circles; I'm here to learn if this might
be a way to initiate dialogue among women in Amherst's interfaith and
secular communities."

An open panel discussion explored how women's leadership can work to
restore God's creation using the Beijing Platform for Action as a
blueprint. Participants were invited to join panelists Jane Gould,
Phoebe Griswold, Iza Hussin, Lallie Lloyd, and Hilary Rantisi as they
shared their experience working with and for women.

Full story: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81799_101177_ENG_HTM.htm

More Mission: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81799_ENG_HTM.htm

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>DAYBOOK

On September 30, 2008, the Church calendar remembers Jerome, priest, and
monk of Bethlehem (c. 347-420).

* 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 30, 653, Honorius, Archbishop of
Canterbury, died.

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>CATALYST

"What Size are God's Shoes: Kids, Chaos, and the Spiritual Life" from
Church Publishing, Inc., by Tim Schenck, foreword by Barbara Cawthorne
Crafton, 131 pages, paperback, c. 2008, $12

[Church Publishing, Inc.] "It's hard to have a God complex when your
kids expect you to play garbage truck every night. This is the game
where I lie on the floor as the boys stuff trucks, action figures, and
plastic dinosaurs into my shirt. When the garbage truck is full to the
point of overflowing, I go to the town dump by standing up. This is
repeated ad nauseum. On any given day, I might find myself absolving
sins in the name of the Church one moment and serving the cause of waste
management the next."  

Do you believe God can be found in both the miraculous and the mundane?
Through 40 insightful and engaging essays, Tim Schenck helps us
encounter God through the chaos of everyday life. The divine presence
weaves its way into a family room fish tank, a child's probing
questions, the town pool, and the drive-thru window of the local fast
food chain.

Access Tim Schenck's popular blog, "Clergy Family Confidential," at
www.frtim.com, where you will find a parents' study guide for this book.

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