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>Episcopal Life Daily
>October 21, 2008

>Episcopal Life Online is available at
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>Today's Episcopal Life Daily includes:

* TOP STORY - General Convention should not consider Anglican covenant,
Presiding Bishop tells Executive Council
* TOP STORY - Black Ministries Conference participants told to 'think
globally and act locally'
* TOP STORY - 'Stand up and speak up,' Bonnie Anderson urges Grace
Cathedral congregation
* WORLD REPORT - CANADA: National office asked to slash CAN$1.3 million
from budget
* WORLD REPORT - PHILIPPINES: Church, family urge authorities to solve
bishop's murder
* PEOPLE - Search committee for director of communication named
* DAYBOOK - October 22, 2008: Today in Scripture, Prayer, History
* CATALYST - Better Get It InYour Soul: What Liturgists Can Learn from
Jazz

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>TOP STORIES

General Convention should not consider Anglican covenant, Presiding
Bishop tells Executive Council 

Budgets for 2009, 2010-2012 triennium getting Council attention 

>By Mary Frances Schjonberg

[Episcopal News Service, Helena, Montana] If a proposed Anglican
covenant is released in mid-May for adoption by the Anglican Communion's
provinces, Presiding Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori will "strongly
discourage" any effort to bring that request to the 76th General
Convention in July.

Jefferts Schori briefly discussed the covenant process during her
remarks to the opening plenary session October 21 on the second of the
Executive Council's four-day meeting in Helena, the seat of the Diocese
of Montana.

Anglican Communion provinces have until the end of March 2009 to respond
to the current version of the proposed covenant, known as the St.
Andrew's Draft. The Covenant Design Group meets in London in April 2009
and may issue another draft of a covenant. That draft is expected to be
reviewed by the Anglican Consultative Council (ACC) during its May 1-12,
2009 meeting. The ACC could decide to release that version to the
provinces for their adoption.

If the ACC decides to do that, "my sense is that the time is far too
short before our General Convention for us to have a thorough discussion
of it as a church and I'm therefore going to strongly discourage any
move to bring it to General Convention," Jefferts Schori told the
Executive Council. "I just think it's inappropriate to make a decision
that weighty" that quickly, she added.

Full story: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/79901_101764_ENG_HTM.htm

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Black Ministries Conference participants told to 'think globally and act
locally'

>By Daphne Mack

[Episcopal News Service] The opportunity to discuss and identify the
challenges which prevent black and multicultural congregations from
thriving drew more than 200 participants -- from the U.S., Canada, the
United Kingdom, the Caribbean and Latin America -- to New Orleans,
Louisiana on October 20 for the opening of the Episcopal Church's Black
Ministries Conference.

"Sisters and brothers we are rich in diversity, gifts and talents and we
have gathered here as the body of Christ because we take seriously our
responsibility as Christians in the world and have chosen to take a
critical look at our congregations and ourselves," said the Rev. Angela
S. Ifill, the Episcopal Church's program officer for black ministries,
in her opening address. She went on to say that they are assembled to
"continue to build the foundation" that supports the work "they have all
been called to do."

The conference, "Grant Us Wisdom, Grant Us Courage, for the Living of
These Days," is meeting at the Intercontinental New Orleans Hotel to
continue the work of the New Ventures Task Force which is charged with
developing a strategic plan that will help congregations prepare for
their role in God's mission in the world. The task force was formed on
June 20, 2007 in consultation with Bishop Michael Curry of the Diocese
of North Carolina and Bishop Suffragan Chester Talton of the Diocese of
Los Angeles.

Full story: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/79901_101763_ENG_HTM.htm

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'Stand up and speak up,' Bonnie Anderson urges Grace Cathedral
congregation

Deputies' president honored at California diocesan convention

>By Pat McCaughan

[Episcopal News Service, San Francisco] House of Deputies President
Bonnie Anderson encouraged a Grace Cathedral congregation October 19 to
"get into trouble, not stay out of trouble" by exercising moral
authority and leadership through keeping baptismal promises.

"That is the way of the cross. It is from Jesus, a servant, a
troublemaker that we take our moral leadership direction," said
Anderson, while preaching at the San Francisco cathedral's Sunday
morning service. "And if we follow it, if we keep our baptismal
promises, we are willingly vulnerable and we will get into trouble."

She cited as troublemaking moral leaders Mahatma Gandhi, the Rev. Martin
Luther King Jr., Ogala Lakota activist Black Elk, United Farm Worker
organizer and leader Caesar Chavez, Holocaust survivor and author Elie
Weisel, and African American poet Langston Hughes, among others. She
included friends, family, co-workers as "moral leadership role models
... Right here, right now, we could tell true, astounding moral
authority stories about each other and ourselves."

Full story: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/79901_101748_ENG_HTM.htm

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

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>WORLD REPORT

CANADA: National office asked to slash CAN$1.3 million from budget
http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81808_101762_ENG_HTM.htm

PHILIPPINES: Church, family urge authorities to solve bishop's murder
http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81808_101760_ENG_HTM.htm

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

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>PEOPLE

Search committee for director of communication named

[Episcopal News Service] The members of the search committee for a
director of communication for the Episcopal Church have been announced
by Linda E. Watt, chief operating officer.

The search committee will be chaired by Linda Hanick, vice president for
communication and marketing at Trinity Church, Wall Street in New York
City.

Search committee members are: the Rev. Scott A. Gunn, Christ Church,
Lincoln, Rhode Island, and a member of the Episcopal Life board of
governors; the Ven. P. Joyce Hardy from the Diocese of Arkansas and a
member of the Episcopal Church's Executive Council; the Very Rev.
Nicholas Knisely, dean of Trinity Cathedral in Phoenix, Arizona, and
chair of the church's Standing Committee on Communication; Lorenzo
Martinez, vice president of external affairs for Episcopal Relief and
Development; the Rev. Dr. Charles Robertson, canon to the Presiding
Bishop; the Rev. Canon Louis Schueddig, president of the Alliance for
Christian Media in Atlanta, Georgia; Mary Ellen Sloane, principal,
Meridian Communication, Lexington, Kentucky; and Richelle Thompson,
communications director of the Diocese of Southern Ohio, based in
Cincinnati.

Full story: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81831_101752_ENG_HTM.htm

More People: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81831_ENG_HTM.htm

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>DAYBOOK

>On October 22, 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 22, 1990, the diocesan synod of the
Anglican Diocese of Cape Town, South Africa, voted overwhelmingly in
favor of the ordination of women to the priesthood.

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>CATALYST

"Better Get It In Your Soul: What Liturgists Can Learn from Jazz" from
Church Publishing, Inc., by Reid Hamilton and Stephen Rush, 172 pages,
paperback, c. 2008, $18

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Written by a priest and a musician who have worked together for many
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Better Get It In Your Soul describes methods that demonstrate a respect
for others' gifts and skills, discernment of spiritual needs, and
welcoming the creative force of the Holy Spirit into the planning
process. Though thoroughly based in the Book of Common Prayer liturgy,
the experience and ideas presented here are described in ways that will
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