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>Episcopal Life Daily
>May 8, 2009

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

>Today's Episcopal Life Daily includes:

* TOP STORY - Anglican Consultative Council postpones release of  covenant
* TOP STORY - ACC affirms Windsor Continuation Group recommendations
* DIOCESAN DIGEST - LOS ANGELES: Santa Barbara fires rage: Episcopalians
among those evacuated
* WORLD REPORT - KENYA: Church leaders reject polygamous marriage  proposal
* PEOPLE - Sarah Eagle Heart named program officer for Native
American/Indigenous ministries
* MULTIMEDIA - Episcopal Church participants discuss ACC covenant  debate,
decision
* MULTIMEDIA - Video: Kenneth Kearon addresses media following ACC  covenant
action
* MULTIMEDIA - Video: Media briefing: ACC affirms Windsor Continuation  Group
report
* DAYBOOK - May 11, 2009: Today in Scripture, Prayer, History
* CATALYST - Love's Trinity - A Companion to Julian of Norwich

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>TOP STORIES

Anglican Consultative Council postpones release of covenant

Council agrees that dispute-resolution section needs work

>By Mary Frances Schjonberg

[Episcopal News Service -- Kingston, Jamaica] The representatives of the
Anglican Consultative Council (ACC) decided on May 8 that the Ridley
Cambridge Draft of an Anglican covenant needs more work before it can be
presented to the communion's provinces for adoption.

Full story: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/79901_107438_ENG_HTM.htm

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ACC affirms Windsor Continuation Group recommendations

Effort to add moratoria on property litigation narrowly defeated

>By Mary Frances Schjonberg

[Episcopal News Service -- Kingston, Jamaica] The representatives of the
Anglican Consultative Council (ACC) affirmed May 8 the Windsor  Continuation
Group's final report, which includes moratoria on same-gender blessings,
cross-border interventions and the ordination of gay and lesbian people  to
the episcopate.

The resolution noted the "deep cost" of observing those moratoria and  calls
the Anglican Communion to "pray for repentance, conversion and renewal;
leading to deeper communion."

The members narrowly rejected (33-32) an attempt to add a fourth  moratoria
that would have banned litigation over the taking of property by those  who
leave a diocese or province.

Full story: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/79901_107427_ENG_HTM.htm

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

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>DIOCESAN DIGEST

LOS ANGELES: Santa Barbara fires rage: Episcopalians among those  evacuated

Fire truck stands at the ready in St. Mary's Retreat Center driveway

>By Pat McCaughan

[Episcopal News Service] Thick smoke and ash rained down for a fourth
straight day as firefighters battled a five-mile wall of flames along  the
Santa Ynez Mountains near Santa Barbara, estimated to have destroyed  3,500
acres and at least 75 homes and displaced about 30,000 people, including
some local Episcopalians.

Full story: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81803_107450_ENG_HTM.htm

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

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>WORLD REPORT

KENYA: Church leaders reject polygamous marriage proposal

>By Fredrick Nzwili

[Ecumenical News International, Nairobi] Church leaders in Kenya say  they
reject a draft law due to be debated in parliament that would authorize
polygamous marriages, outlaw compulsory dowries and recognize  cohabitation.

Full story: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81808_107449_ENG_HTM.htm

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

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>PEOPLE

Sarah Eagle Heart named program officer for Native American/Indigenous
ministries

>By ENS staff

[Episcopal News Service] Presiding Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori has
named Sarah Eagle Heart as program officer for Native  American/Indigenous
Ministries for the Episcopal Church.

Full story: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81831_107446_ENG_HTM.htm

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

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>MULTIMEDIA

Videos: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81231_ENG_HTM.htm

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Episcopal Church participants discuss ACC covenant debate, decision

[Episcopal News Service] The Episcopal Church representatives on the
Anglican Consultative Council speak about the extended debate May 8 on  the
Anglican covenant. The Episcopal Church is represented on the ACC by
episcopal member Suffragan Bishop Catherine Roskam of New York, clerical
member Ian Douglas, and lay member Josephine Hicks. Presiding Bishop
Katharine Jefferts Schori has voice and vote on the ACC by way of her  seat
on the ACC/Primates Joint Standing Committee.

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Kenneth Kearon addresses media following ACC covenant action

[Episcopal News Service] The Rev. Canon Kenneth Kearon, secretary  general of
the Anglican Communion, addresses the media May 8 following the decision  of
the Anglican Consultative Council to postpone the release of the  Anglican
covenant so that it can undergo more work before it is presented to the
communion provinces for adoption. The ACC is meeting May 2-12 in  Kingston,
Jamaica.

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Media briefing: ACC affirms Windsor Continuation Group report

[Episcopal News Service] Archbishop Phillip Aspinall of the Anglican  Church
of Australia and Welsh Diocese of St. Asaph Bishop Gregory Cameron,  outgoing
deputy secretary general of the Anglican Communion, address the media  May 8
following the passing of a resolution by the Anglican Consultative  Council
affirming the final report of the Windsor Continuation Group. The ACC is
meeting May 2-12 in Kingston, Jamaica.

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Videos: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81231_ENG_HTM.htm

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>DAYBOOK

>On May 11, 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 May 11, 1851, the first missionary, the Rev.  Willian
Richmond, arrived in Oregon.

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>CATALYST

"Love's Trinity - A Companion to Julian of Norwich" from Liturgical  Press,
by Julian of Norwich, translated by Father John-Julian, commentary by
Frederick S. Roden, 352 pages, paperback, c. 2009, $39.95

[Church House Publishing] In the year 1373 a young Englishwoman whose  name
we do not know-she is called "Julian" because she lived part of her life  as
an enclosed solitary in the church of St. Julian in Norwich-experienced  a
series of intense visions that she later recorded in two versions. The
formal title of the "long text" of that book is A Revelation of Love. It  is
commonly called Showings, the word Julian herself used to describe her
visions.

This edition incorporates the long text of the Showings, as translated  by
Father John-Julian, and a commentary written by Frederick S. Roden. A  lay
affiliate member of the Order of Julian of Norwich, Roden gives us a
companion that is reflective yet learned. It is designed to draw the  reader
more fully into an understanding and experience of what Julian tells us  she
saw and heard. In the text and commentary we begin to comprehend the  truth
Julian summarizes at the end of the Showings: "Love was His meaning."

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