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

>Episcopal Life Daily
>March 20, 2009

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

>Today's Episcopal Life Daily includes:

* WORLD REPORT - KENYA: Prime minister lambastes churches for 'new
elections' call
* ARTS - Big Top, big dreams: Arts programs help children succeed
onstage and off
* DAYBOOK - March 23, 2009: Today in Scripture, Prayer, History
* CATALYST - Seneca Falls and the Origins of the Women's Rights Movement

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>WORLD REPORT

KENYA: Prime minister lambastes churches for 'new elections' call

>By Fredrick Nzwili

[Ecumenical News International] Kenyan Prime Minister Raila Odinga has
dismissed calls by the National Council of Churches of Kenya for fresh
elections, charging that the churches were spreading populist politics
that could ruin the country.

"That is the height of hypocrisy," said Odinga on 19 March in the
capital, Nairobi. "There are no conditions for free and fair
elections."

The Rev. Peter Karanja, the NCCK's general secretary, had the day
before said Kenya was facing a crisis of leadership and bad governance
under President Mwai Kibaki and Prime Minister Odinga. "The impression
and expression of most Kenyans is that they have a moribund president
and an ineffective prime minister," said Karanja.

Full story: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81808_106291_ENG_HTM.htm

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

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>ARTS

>Big Top, big dreams

Arts programs help children succeed onstage and off

>By Jerry Hames

[Episcopal News Service] Wide-eyed children who never imagined the
possibility of setting a foot on stage to sing, dance, act or perform
in a circus troupe are having their dreams come true thanks to an
innovative program between the Episcopal Diocese of New York, Trinity
Wall Street Church and public schools.

Several after-school programs in the arts form one element of a more
inclusive program, "All Our Children," initiated by Trinity Church and
the diocese to raise up a generation of leaders with a well-rounded
education while forging economic opportunities that eventually could
support them as adults.

Full story: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81827_106248_ENG_HTM.htm

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

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>DAYBOOK

On March 23, 2009, Gregory the Illuminator, bishop and missionary of
Armenia (c. 257-332)

* 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 23, 1540, Waltham Abbey in Essex became
the last monastery in England to surrender its allegiance to the Roman
Catholic Church and support King Henry VIII and the emerging Church of
England.

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>CATALYST

"Seneca Falls and the Origins of the Women's Rights Movement" from
Oxford University Press, by Sally G. McMillen, 310 pages, hardcover,
c. 2008, $28

[Oxford University Press] In a quiet town of Seneca Falls, New York,
over the course of two days in July, 1848, a small group of women and
men, led by Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucretia Mott, held a
convention that would launch the woman's rights movement and change
the course of history. The implications of that remarkable convention
would be felt around the world and indeed are still being felt today.

In Seneca Falls and the Origins of the Woman's Rights Movement, the
latest contribution to Oxford's acclaimed Pivotal Moments in American
History series, Sally McMillen unpacks, for the first time, the full
significance of that revolutionary convention and the enormous changes
it produced. The book covers 50 years of women's activism, from
1840-1890, focusing on four extraordinary figures -- Lucretia Mott,
Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Lucy Stone, and Susan B. Anthony. McMillen
tells the stories of their lives, how they came to take up the cause
of women's rights, the astonishing advances they made during their
lifetimes, and the lasting and transformative effects of the work they
did. At the convention they asserted full equality with men, argued
for greater legal rights, greater professional and education
opportunities, and the right to vote -- ideas considered wildly
radical at the time. Indeed, looking back at the convention two years
later, Anthony called it "the grandest and greatest reform of all
time--and destined to be thus regarded by the future historian." In
this lively and warmly written study, Sally McMillen may well be the
future historian Anthony was hoping to find.

A vibrant portrait of a major turning point in American women's
history, and indeed in human history, Seneca Falls, 1848 is essential
reading for anyone wishing to fully understand the origins of the
woman's rights movement.

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

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