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

>Episcopal Life Daily
>February 20, 2009

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Editor's note: The Episcopal Life Daily for February 19 included an
incorrect link for the PEOPLE story 'VTS presents first Dean's Cross
award to Tay Cooper and Harold Lewis.' The correct URL is
http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81831_105262_ENG_HTM.htm

>Today's Episcopal Life Daily includes:

* WORLD REPORT - CANADA: Truth and Reconciliation commissioners gather
advice for their successors
* WORLD REPORT - JERUSALEM: U.S. Congress members meet with Anglican
bishop in Jerusalem
* PEOPLE - HIV-positive Ugandan priest is 2009 Niwano Peace Prize winner
* ARTS: FILM: "Coraline" animates challenging moral dilemmas
* DAYBOOK - February 23, 2009: Today in Scripture, Prayer, History
* CATALYST - Wangari's Trees of Peace: A True Story from Africa

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>WORLD REPORT

CANADA: Truth and Reconciliation commissioners gather advice for their
successors

[Anglican Journal] Two members of the Indian Residential School Truth
and Reconciliation Commissioners (http://www.trc-cvr.ca/indexen.html)
came to the Anglican Church of Canada (http://www.anglican.ca) General
Synod office in Toronto on February 13 to consult with an ecumenical
group that helps the churches engage in the truth and reconciliation
process.

Commissioners Jane Brewin Morley and Claudette Dumont-Smith, who are
leaving the commission, are preparing information and advice for the
yet-to-be-appointed new commissioners and chair.

Full story: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81808_105291_ENG_HTM.htm

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JERUSALEM: U.S. Congress members meet with Anglican bishop in Jerusalem

[Diocese of Jerusalem] U.S. House of Representatives members Keith
Ellison (D-Minnesota) and Brian Baird (D-Washington) met February 18
with Anglican Bishop in Jerusalem Suheil S. Dawani prior to their
visit to Gaza.

Ellison and Baird met Dawani in Doha, Qatar, during the 2009 U.S.
Islamic World Forum. Dawani, a participant at the forum, had invited
them to visit him at St. George's Anglican Cathedral when in
Jerusalem. Ellison is the only Muslim in the U.S. Congress

Full story: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81808_105289_ENG_HTM.htm

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

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>PEOPLE

HIV-positive Ugandan priest is 2009 Niwano Peace Prize winner

>By Peter Kenny

[Ecumenical News International - Geneva, Switzerland] The Rev. Canon
Gideon Byamugisha, a Ugandan Anglican priest who became the first
known African cleric to declare publicly he was HIV-positive, breaking
stigma-induced silence that often hampers combating the illness, has
been awarded the Niwano Peace Prize.

Full story: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81831_105284_ENG_HTM.htm

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

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>ARTS

FILM: "Coraline" animates challenging moral dilemmas

>By Donovan Jacobs

[Episcopal News Service] Some Christian audiences seem to gravitate
toward family films not only for their kid-friendly storylines but
because they offer escapism in a broad but not always positive sense
of the word. While many of these movies offer entertaining and
fanciful settings and characters, they provide a disservice to their
audience when they gloss over the truth of how the world operates or
suggest overly tidy solutions to complex problems.

Full review: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81827_105301_ENG_HTM.htm

More Arts: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81827_ENG_HTM.htm

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>DAYBOOK

On February 23, 2009, the church calendar remembers Polycarp, bishop
and martyr of Smyrna (c. 59- c. 156)

* 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 February 23, 1455, Johannes Gutenberg published
the Bible, the first book ever printed on a press with movable type.

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>CATALYST

"Wangari's Trees of Peace: A True Story from Africa" from Houghton
Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Co., by Jeanette Winter, 32 pages,
hardcover, c. 2008, $17

[Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Co.] As a young girl growing up
in Kenya, Wangari was surrounded by trees. But years later when she
returns home, she is shocked to see whole forests being cut down, and
she knows that soon all the trees will be destroyed. So Wangari
decides to do something -- and starts by planting nine seedlings in
her own backyard. And as they grow, so do her plans.

This true story of Wangari Maathai, environmentalist and winner of the
Nobel Peace Prize, is a shining example of how one woman's passion,
vision, and determination inspired great change.

(This book was printed on 100% recycled paper with 50% post-consumer  waste.)

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http://www.episcopalbookstore.org, or call 800-903-5544 -- or visit
your local Episcopal bookseller, http://www.episcopalbooksellers.org

Please note: all Black History Month titles are on sale at 25% off.
Sale ends on February 28, 2009.

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

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