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>Episcopal Life Daily
>October 2, 2008

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

>Today's Episcopal Life Daily includes:

* TOP STORY - Community harvest burgeons at church gardens
* DIOCESAN DIGEST - QUINCY: Diocese reveals proposed realignment
resolutions
* EDUCATION - Continuing the Lambeth conversations, Episcopal Divinity
School offers webcast and study guide
* MULTIMEDIA - Image Gallery: Community harvest burgeons at church
gardens
* MULTIMEDIA - Video: Presiding Bishop on Room for All
* OPINION - Sabbath summer: Historical books help us understand present
realities
* DAYBOOK - October 3, 2008: Today in Scripture, Prayer, History
* CATALYST - An American Awakening: From Ground Zero to Katrina -- The
People We Are Free to Be

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>TOP STORIES

>Community harvest burgeons at church gardens

>By Phina Borgeson

[Episcopal Life] At Episcopal parishes around the country, increasing
numbers of volunteers are putting their faith to work with hoes and
trowels, drip systems and harvesting baskets. Community gardens are
producing fresh, local vegetables for gardeners and food pantries,
stewarding land and biological diversity, and connecting people across
cultures and generations.

Full story: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/79901_101277_ENG_HTM.htm

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

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>DIOCESAN DIGEST

QUINCY: Diocese reveals proposed realignment resolutions
http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81803_101295_ENG_HTM.htm

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

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>EDUCATION

Continuing the Lambeth conversations, Episcopal Divinity School offers
webcast and study guide

[EDS] Bishops from Province I of the Episcopal Church reflect on their
experiences of the 2008 Lambeth Conference in the Lambeth Review
webcast, part of Episcopal Divinity School's fall continuing education
programming. 

Panelists the Rev. Dr. Ian Douglas, member of the Lambeth Conference
Design Team; the Rt. Rev. Chilton Knudsen, bishop of Maine; the Rt. Rev.
Thomas Ely, bishop of Vermont; and the Rt. Rev. Gayle Harris, suffragan
bishop of Massachusetts speak about Lambeth 2008 and "their hopes for
how this experience of conversation and deep listening can both
strengthen the Anglican Communion and help people of faith live into
their service to God's Mission of justice, compassion, and
reconciliation," an EDS news release said. 

The webcast is available here

(https://admin.na3.acrobat.com/_a204712264/p99047042).

For congregations, deaneries, or dioceses wishing to engage in the same
Indaba discussion groups as the bishops used at Lambeth 2008, EDS
announces the availability of "God's Mission, Your Call: Bringing
Lambeth Home A Study Guide." Incorporating the Indaba curriculum used at
Lambeth, this study guide presents the material in a form conducive to
an adult Sunday school, retreat, or adult education format.

Full article: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/78650_101283_ENG_HTM.htm

More Education: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/80263_93222_ENG_HTM.htm

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>MULTIMEDIA

Image Gallery: Community harvest burgeons at church gardens

[Episcopal Life] An image gallery accompanying today's top story about
community gardens is available at
http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81991_101223_ENG_HTM.htm

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>Video: Presiding Bishop on Room for All

[Episcopal News Service] Presiding Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori
addresses the events and the controversies facing the Episcopal Church
this fall in Room for All. The Presiding Bishop offers her remarks
during a visit to the Diocese of Georgia following Eucharist with Christ
Church Savannah, currently worshipping at St Michael and All Angels
Episcopal Church in Savannah.

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

More Multimedia: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/80056_ENG_HTM.htm

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>OPINION

>Sabbath summer

Historical books help us understand present realities

>By Katharine Jefferts Schori

[Episcopal Life] How did you spend your summer vacation? I started mine
by devouring several books I hadn't had time to read the rest of the
year. I'm still working on a couple of others. That reality brought to
mind the saying of my ninth-grade algebra teacher: "Vacations are for
doing what you don't normally do -- in the case of many of you, that
means do your algebra homework." 

That kind of rhythm of greater focus on what is normally not possible,
or what we're not normally inclined toward, lies behind the biblical
notion of Sabbath. The seventh day is holy, a day to rest because God
rested. The fields are meant to lie fallow in the seventh year so they
can be more productive thereafter. Monastic spirituality, particularly
the Benedictine sort, structures time by devoting portions of each day
and week to prayer, study, work and play (it's often called recreation).

Back to the books. One was loaned to me, a couple of others given or
sent to me, and the rest I went looking for after reading reviews.
Several have connections with the Anglican Communion and/or the
Episcopal Church. I commend each one.

Full article: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/80050_101282_ENG_HTM.htm

More Opinion: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/80050_ENG_HTM.htm

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>DAYBOOK

>On October 3, 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 October 3, 1993, Robert Reed Shahan was
consecrated bishop coadjutor of Arizona.

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>CATALYST

"An American Awakening: From Ground Zero to Katrina -- The People We Are
Free to Be" from Church Publishing, Inc., by Courtney Cowart, 182 pages,
hardcover, c. 2008, $24

[Church Publishing, Inc.] A riveting record of an unusual journey by
Courtney Cowart, a theologian who witnessed the two greatest
catastrophes in recent American history -- the 9/11 tragedy at the World
Trade Center and the devastation of Hurricane Katrina -- and how the
author actively participated in the healing of both.

An American Awakening spans the time from September 11, 2001, through
the second anniversary of Hurricane Katrina in 2007. Beginning in New
York, this account reveals Cowart's role in the Ground Zero recovery
ministry at St. Paul's Chapel, "The Little Church That Stood," across
the street from the World Trade Center. This gripping memoir presents
the spiritual commitments made when the author's life was spared on
9/11, and how these commitments eventually led her to answer the call to
serve in New Orleans. It is an engrossing account of Cowart's experience
in post-Katrina New Orleans as director of the Office of Disaster
Response for the Episcopal Diocese of Louisiana, a post she accepted
after her life-changing experience at Ground Zero. Cowart is probably
the only American spiritual leader called to a sustained, front-line
role in both the 9/11 and Katrina disasters, and this is the first and
only memoir of that dual experience.

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