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>Episcopal Life Daily
>April 3, 2009

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>Today's Episcopal Life Daily includes:

* TOP STORY - Windsor process, covenant to top Anglican Consultative
Council agenda
* TOP STORY - Design Group works on Anglican covenant revision
* WORLD REPORT - ENGLAND: Williams 'delighted' by Nichols' appointment
as Archbishop of Westminster
* WORLD REPORT - ENGLAND: Pakistan-born bishop's decision to step down
stirs global debate
* WORLD REPORT - SOUTH AFRICA: ANC accuses Tutu of 'sacrilege' over
criticism of 'Zuma presidency'
* WORLD REPORT - SRI LANKA: Church peace official detained by  authorities
* MISSION - Anglican and Episcopal churches around the world mark Earth  Hour
* ARTS - Children's book provides a donkey's-eye view of Easter
* DAYBOOK - April 6, 2009: Today in Scripture, Prayer, History
* CATALYST - M. L. K. - Journey of a King

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>TOP STORIES

Windsor process, covenant to top Anglican Consultative Council agenda

Communion's chief legislative council to adopt new format at Jamaica  meeting

>By Matthew Davies

[Episcopal News Service] The Anglican Communion's most representative
legislative body -- the Anglican Consultative Council -- will consider
two documents at its upcoming meeting that "are key to discerning a
way forward for the Anglican Communion in light of recent stresses
caused by differences over matters of human sexuality," according to
an April 3 news release from the Anglican Communion Office.

The two documents to be discussed by the ACC when it convenes May 1-13
in Kingston, Jamaica, are the proposed Anglican covenant and the
Windsor Continuation Group's final report that was made public during
the early February meeting of the leaders, known as primates, of the
communion's provinces.

The latest draft of an Anglican covenant is expected to be released
next week ahead of the ACC meeting. The Rev. Dr. Ephraim Radner, one
of two Episcopal Church members on the Covenant Design Group, told ENS
April 3, at the conclusion of the design group's latest meeting, that
it is "warmly commending this draft" to the ACC, which is the only
communion body with the authority to ask the Anglican provinces to
sign onto the covenant.

Full story: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/79901_106680_ENG_HTM.htm

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Design Group works on Anglican covenant revision

Text to be discussed by Anglican Consultative Council in May

>By Matthew Davies

[Episcopal News Service] The group charged with "designing" a covenant
that could be used as a unifying set of principles among the provinces
of the Anglican Communion met March 30-April 3 in Cambridge, England
to work on a new revision of the text.

"A completed revision of the proposed covenant has been finished,
along with a commentary explaining our work," the Rev. Dr. Ephraim
Radner, one of two Episcopal Church members on the Covenant Design
Group, told ENS at the conclusion of the meeting. "We have taken
seriously the array of responses received from the provinces and from
around the communion and larger church."

The latest incarnation of the Anglican covenant, along with the design
group's commentary, is expected to be "posted on the Anglican
Communion website sometime next week," said Radner.

Full story: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/79901_106676_ENG_HTM.htm

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

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>WORLD REPORT

ENGLAND: Williams 'delighted' by Nichols' appointment as Archbishop of
Westminster

>By Matthew Davies

[Episcopal News Service] Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams has
welcomed the April 3 announcement that Vincent Nichols has been
appointed as archbishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Westminster
in central London.

Full story: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81808_106666_ENG_HTM.htm

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ENGLAND: Pakistan-born bishop's decision to step down stirs global  debate

>By Martin Revis

[Episcopal News Service] The decision by the Church of England's
bishop of Rochester, Michael Nazir-Ali, to step down 10 years before
he could have retired to begin a career ministering to "persecuted
Christians" has stirred vigorous global debate.

Full story: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81808_106675_ENG_HTM.htm

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SOUTH AFRICA: ANC accuses Tutu of 'sacrilege' over criticism of 'Zuma
presidency'

>By Munyaradzi Makoni

[Ecumenical News International, Cape Town] South Africa's ruling
African National Congress has lambasted Nobel Peace Price laureate
Desmond Tutu, accusing the former Anglican archbishop of Cape Town of
"blasphemy" after he said he did not look forward to ANC president
Jacob Zuma becoming the country's head of state.

Full story: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81808_106677_ENG_HTM.htm

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SRI LANKA: Church peace official detained by authorities

>By Anto Akkara

[Ecumenical News International, New Delhi] The executive secretary for
justice and peace of the National Christian Council of Sri Lanka has
been arrested by a terrorism investigation unit of the government in
Colombo.

Full story: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81808_106674_ENG_HTM.htm

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

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>MISSION

Anglican churches around the world mark Earth Hour

>By Phina Borgeson

[Episcopal News Service] The bells of Grace Church, Amherst,
Massachusetts, pealed down the seconds to the start of Earth Hour, a
global energy conservation action of the World Wildlife Fund, on March
28. More than 200 people gathered in the adjacent town common to
declare their support for legislation requiring reduced greenhouse
gases. Most had turned out the lights and other power uses at their
homes to join the celebration, which included entertainment by
musicians, fire throwers and fire eaters.

Full story: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81799_106681_ENG_HTM.htm

More Mission: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81799_ENG_HTM.htm

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>ARTS

Children's book provides a donkey's-eye view of Easter

>By Jerry Hames

[Episcopal Life] A storyteller/songwriter and an illustrator, both
members of Episcopal churches in Birmingham, Alabama, have teamed to
create The Donkey's Easter Tale (Pelican, $15.95), a richly
illustrated children's book about the last days of Christ's life and
resurrection, as told by the donkey that carried him through the
streets of Jerusalem and remained by his side until Easter.

"The Donkey's Easter Tale is most certainly based on scriptural
narrative but is not intended as fact," said songwriter Adele Bibb
Colvin, whose work is featured in songbooks and worship services.

Full story: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81827_106678_ENG_HTM.htm

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

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>DAYBOOK

>On April 6, 2009...

* 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 April 6, 2002, Carol Gallagher, member to the
Cherokee Nation, was consecrated suffragan bishop in Southern Virginia
thus becoming the first indigenous female bishop.

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>CATALYST

"M. L. K. - Journey of a King" from Harry N. Abrams, Inc., by Tonya
Bolden, 128 pages, hardcover, c. 2007, $19.95

[Harry N. Abrams, Inc.] Illustrated with period photography, this
one-of-a-kind biography of the civil-rights pioneer by a Coretta Scott
King Honor author is sure to become a classic. In the tradition of her
award-winning book Maritcha, Tonya Bolden brings words and pictures
together to tell the life story of one of America's greatest figures:
Martin Luther King, Jr. -- or M.L.K. Central to the story is King's
belief that agape -- the selfless love for one's neighbor -- is the
rope that binds all peoples together. This philosophy came forward in
his sermons, in his daily practice, and especially in his support of
nonviolent protests. More than 80 photographs of M.L.K. preaching,
leading marches, being arrested, and overcoming the violence and
prejudice around him are juxtaposed with images of his wife and
family, of his fellow protestors, and of other leaders of the day. A
tribute to a great human being, M.L.K. will surely inspire young
readers.

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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