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

>Episcopal Life Daily
>February 23, 2009

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>Today's Episcopal Life Daily includes:

* TOP STORY - Bonnie Anderson named honorary canon at special service
in Quito, Ecuador
* TOP STORY - 'Mission is at the very heart of the church,' keynoter
tells conference
* TOP STORY - Global issues a priority for General Convention
* DIOCESAN DIGEST - PENNSYLVANIA: Rodney Michel named assisting bishop
* DIOCESAN DIGEST - NORTHERN MICHIGAN:  Bishop elected; Episcopal
Ministry Support Team created
* WORLD REPORT - ENGLAND: Cutting carbon is focus of church's Lent
initiative
* EDUCATION - Virginia Theological Seminary not untouched by economic  crisis
* ARTS - FILM: Faith unites Mormon filmmaker and lesbian priest
* DAYBOOK - February 24, 2009: Today in Scripture, Prayer, History
* CATALYST - A Slave No More: Two Men Who Escaped to Freedom

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>TOP STORIES

Bonnie Anderson named honorary canon at special service in Quito,  Ecuador
'We share family ties,' deputies' president tells gathering

>>From staff reports

[Episcopal News Service] - Bonnie Anderson, president of the House of
Deputies of the Episcopal Church, was named an honorary canon of the
Diocese of Ecuador Central's Catedral de El Senor in Quito at a
special service on Sunday, February 21 by Bishop Wilfrido
Ramos-Orench.

As guest homilist at the service, she praised the "passion for
ministry" evident in the diocese. "The Diocese of Ecuador Central is
living into baptismal ministry in important and life-giving ways,"
Anderson said.

"You have embraced the call to common mission by creatively working
with mission partners, you are carefully training and educating the
laity for ministry. You are seeking to serve Christ in all persons.  I
wish I could take your passion for the ministry of the baptized and
sprinkle it all around the Episcopal Church.  Your passion for
ministry is contagious and it is something we all need to catch.

Full story: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/79901_105339_ENG_HTM.htm

'Mission is at the very heart of the church,' keynoter tells conference

God's gift of communion is meant for mission, Kafwanka says

>By Mary Frances Schjonberg

[Episcopal News Service] Mission is at the very heart of the church,
not just something that churches add to what "we normally do," the
Rev. John Kafwanka of the Anglican Communion Office's Mission and
Evangelism desk told members of seven Anglican Communion provinces in
the Americas gathered here February 23.

Kafwanka was the keynote speaker for the five-day Conference of the
Anglican Churches in the Americas on Mutual Responsibility and
Mission.

"We believe that mission happens primarily at the local level, but
also takes place at the global level," said Kafwanka. "We also believe
that mission is from everywhere to everywhere."

Full story: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/79901_105329_ENG_HTM.htm

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Global issues a priority for General Convention

Archbishop of Canterbury to attend first two days

>By Matthew Davies

[Episcopal News Service] Global concerns and Anglican Communion issues
will be a major focus of the Episcopal Church's 76th General
Convention when it meets July 8-17 in Anaheim, California.

The church's main legislative gathering, which meets every three
years, also will welcome many international guests from various
Anglican Communion provinces. Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams
will attend General Convention for the first time July 8-9. He will
participate in Bible study and be a keynote speaker at a global
economic forum on the evening of July 8.

Convention will devote extensive conversation to global issues through
its Committee on International Concerns, which will prepare
legislation to be addressed by convention's House of Bishops and House
of Deputies.

Full story: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/79901_105311_ENG_HTM.htm

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

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>DIOCESAN DIGEST

PENNSYLVANIA: Rodney Michel named assisting bishop

>By Jerry Hames

[Episcopal News Service] Bishop Rodney R. Michel, who retired in 2007
after serving for 10 years as suffragan bishop in the Diocese of Long
Island, will become the new assisting bishop in the Diocese of
Pennsylvania, the diocesan Standing Committee announced February 23.

Full story: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81803_105336_ENG_HTM.htm

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NORTHERN MICHIGAN:  Bishop elected; Episcopal Ministry Support Team  created

>By Joe Bjordal

[Episcopal News Service] Delegates to a special convention of the
Diocese of Northern Michigan (http://www.upepiscopal.org/index.html),
held February 21 at St. Stephen's Church, Escanaba, elected a new
bishop and created a support team that will share in episcopal
oversight, something unique in the Episcopal Church.

Full story: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81803_105334_ENG_HTM.htm

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

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>WORLD REPORT

ENGLAND: Cutting carbon is focus of church's Lent initiative

[Church of England] Advice from a banking boss, the latest
eco-technology in a country church, lifestyle pledges in the North
East and a cut-carbon-not-chocolate challenge from church and
government leaders including the Archbishop of Canterbury are just
some of the ways the Church of England is putting a green stamp on
Lent as part of its Shrinking the Footprint campaign.

Full story: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81808_105310_ENG_HTM.htm

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

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>EDUCATION

Virginia Theological Seminary not untouched by economic crisis

[Episcopal News Service] Faced with a gloomy economic forecast and an
endowment loss of 36 percent, the board of trustees of Virginia
Theological Seminary (VTS), the nation's largest Episcopal seminary,
has instructed the Very Rev. Ian S. Markham, dean and president, to
reduce salaries and expenses by $1 million. For the past four months,
the seminary, which draws 67 percent of its budget from endowment
money, has watched the value of its portfolio fall from $144 million
to $97 million.

Full story: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/78650_105322_ENG_HTM.htm

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

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>ARTS

FILM: Faith unites Mormon filmmaker and lesbian priest

>By Pat McCaughan

[Episcopal News Service] Filmmaker Douglas Hunter didn't set out to
befriend or even to film the Rev. Susan Russell when researching
same-sex marriage for a new documentary, he told an audience at All
Saints Episcopal Church in Pasadena, California on February 22.

Rather, the 40-year-old father of three wanted to explore "the dynamic
between religion and sexuality" and to engage those outside his own
Mormon faith, which teaches that gay marriage is taboo.

Russell, 54, definitely fit the bill. The president of Integrity USA,
an advocacy group for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender
Episcopalians, she campaigned last year to defeat California's
Proposition 8, a ban on gay marriage that was heavily supported by the
Mormon Church.

Full story: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81827_105332_ENG_HTM.htm

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

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>DAYBOOK

On February 24, 2009, the church calendar remembers St. Matthias.

* 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 24, 1816, William H. Havergal,
composer, was ordained a priest. On February 24, 1208, Francis of
Assisi experienced a vision in the church of Portunicula, Italy, that
convinced him to begin a mission of preaching repentance, caring for
lepers and aiding the peasants.

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>CATALYST

"A Slave No More: Two Men Who Escaped to Freedom" from Houghton
Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Co., by David W. Blight, 315 pages,
paperback, c. 2009, $14.95

[Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Co.] Slave narratives are
extremely rare; very few are first-person accounts by slaves who freed
themselves. Now two newly uncovered narratives, and the biographies of
the men who wrote them, join that exclusive group. Wallace Turnage was
a teenage field hand on an Alabama plantation, John Washington an
urban slave in Virginia. They never met. But both saw opportunity in
the chaos of the Civil War, both escaped north, and both left
remarkable accounts of their flights to freedom. This book is more
than their narratives: working from painstakingly acquired records and
sources for the lives of heretofore unknown former slaves, the
historian David W. Blight has discovered and reconstructed their
lives-from slave childhood to black working-class stability in the
North. These are the untold biographies of two ordinary men, but they
are also new answers to how four million people moved from slavery to
freedom. A Slave No More is a major addition to the canon of American
history.

To order: Episcopal Books and Resources, online at
http://www.episcopalbookstore.org, or call 800-903-5544 -- or visit
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Please note: all Black History Month titles are on sale at 25% off.
Sale ends on February 28.

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

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