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

>Episcopal Life Daily
>February 27, 2009

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

>Today's Episcopal Life Daily includes:

* TOP STORY - Anglicans in the Americas share 'vision of our future
together' during mission conference
* DIOCESAN DIGEST - NEBRASKA: Three faith groups launch journey to new
campus; deeper respect
* DIOCESAN DIGEST - QUINCY: Diversity embraced as steering committee
leads reorganization
* OPINION - What is a meaningful job?
* DAYBOOK - March 2, 2009: Today in Scripture, Prayer, History
* CATALYST - The Bus Ride That Changed History: The Story of Rosa Parks

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>TOP STORIES

Anglicans in the Americas share 'vision of our future together' during
mission conference

'Our unity begins with our baptism,' participants say in communiqué

>By Mary Frances Schjonberg

[Episcopal News Service -- San José, Costa Rica] The mission and
ministry of Anglicans in the Americas is as varied as the geography of
the region, but during the five-day
Conference of the Anglican Churches in the Americas in Mutual
Responsibility and Mission here, participants have found they have
much in common.

"We spoke about our hopes and dreams, and shared a vision of our
future together as Churches in the Americas and Caribbean," the
conference participants said in a communiqué issued at the end of the
gathering. "We acknowledge that there are tensions within our beloved
Anglican Communion, yet we know that there is much more that we have
in common. Our unity begins with our baptism which makes us ministers
of God's grace in the world.

"We share a world, but know that God's mission has no borders. Our
communities are challenged by the world's economic crisis, the
degradation of creation, the alienation of our youth, and the growing
disparity between rich and poor. In the midst of these challenges, God
calls us to proclaim in both word and deed the Good News of the
Kingdom to all whom we encounter."

Full story: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/79901_105483_ENG_HTM.htm

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

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>DIOCESAN DIGEST

QUINCY: Diversity embraced as steering committee leads reorganization

>By Joe Bjordal

[Episcopal News Service] A newly appointed steering committee,
representing persons in the Diocese of Quincy who want to remain in
the Episcopal Church, has met with the Presiding Bishop in New York,
welcomed a bishop as consultant, and released a vision statement and
immediate goals for the reorganizing diocese.

Full story: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81803_105503_ENG_HTM.htm

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NEBRASKA: Three faith groups launch journey to new campus; deeper  respect

>By Joe Bjordal

[Episcopal News Service] In Omaha, Nebraska, the children of Abraham
are on a bold journey together. They are out to show the world that
members of the three Abrahamic faiths -- Judaism, Christianity and
Islam -- can work together, trust and accept each other, counter
misunderstanding and fear, and even co-exist on an interfaith campus.

Full story: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81803_105480_ENG_HTM.htm

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

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>OPINION

>What is a meaningful job?

>By Stacy Stringer

[Episcopal News Service] What do you do when your dream job becomes a
nightmare? And you realize you've invested your heart, soul and mind
in an enterprise that has lost its heart? And the mega-corporation you
work for disintegrates in disgrace before a worldwide audience? And
your very identity is threatened?

These are the questions I started wrestling with beginning in 2001, as
I witnessed the unthinkable implosion of two world class companies,
both of which had been sources of great pride, meaningful employment,
and ample income for me and for many of my colleagues.

Actually, some of these questions began a year earlier, when for the
first time in my career I faced serious consequences (instead of
praise) for attempting to modify what I believed were erroneous
business practices. Thinking they were merely the result of innocence
and ignorance, I was devastated to discover that it was I who was
confused. A skewed set of "rules" were in operation, and my refusal to
abide by them converted me from an asset to a liability.

Full story: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/80050_105478_ENG_HTM.htm

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

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>DAYBOOK

On March 2, 2009, the church calendar remembers Chad, bishop of
Lichfield (died 672)

* 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 March 2, 1985, Frank T. Griswold, III, was
consecrated as bishop coadjutor of the Episcopal Diocese of Chicago.

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>CATALYST

"The Bus Ride That Changed History: The Story of Rosa Parks" from
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Co., written by Pamela Duncan
Edwards, illustrated by Danny Shanahan, 32 pages, paperback, c. 2005,
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In 1955, a young woman named Rosa Parks took a big step for civil
rights when she refused to give up her seat on a bus for a white
passenger. The bus driver told her to move. Jim Crow laws told her to
move. But Rosa Parks stayed where she was, and a chain of events was
set into motion that would eventually change the course of American
history.

Fifty years later, The Bus Ride That Changed History retraces that
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More Catalyst: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/83842_ENG_HTM.htm

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